Smithsonian to remove slave ship remnant from exhibit - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

Smithsonian to remove slave ship remnant from exhibit - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

By GARY FIELDS, RIVER ZHANG and JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from one of the first sunken slave ships ever recovered is taken off display in Washington. The National Museum of African American History and Culture says a timber piec…