Letter+to+the+Board+of+Director+of+the+National+Slavery Museum

 RP, JJ, FB, NA University School of Milwaukee 2100 West Fairy Chasm Road Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217 January 31, 2009 The US National Slavery Museum 1320 Central Park Boulevard, Suite 251 Fredericksburg, VA 22401 Dear Board of Directors of the National Slavery Museum: This exhibit will be an instant success towards the purpose, goal, and mission of this great museum because this exhibit accomplishes the feat of telling the complete story of slavery. It tells the story from the perspective and point of view from those that lived in the particular time period. This exhibit should be able to make the reader/viewer feel like he or she is in that time period and experiencing the horrible institution that is slavery. Moreover, this exhibit is able to incorporate facts about the treacherous events that slaves had to experience. We believe that showing how the slaves rebelled against their slave owners, used the underground railroad to escape their lives as captive workers, and tell of the famous slaves, abolitionists, or what others that opposed the institution, indirectly or directly, did to help dispose of slavery. These famous people that had to endure slavery or were against it will be included in the exhibit, people such as: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth. Our exhibit will be on a touch screen display board that will be across the length of a wall. This electronic display board will have many interactive features including an interactive map of the Underground Railroad where the viewer can touch the buildings that were a part of the Underground Railroad and a small pop-up window could appear showing information about that certain building. Also, there will be an Underground Railroad game where you are a slave and you make choices that will determine if you are captured or make it to freedom, much like the "Oregon Trail Game". An interactive time line will be included in this touch screen display board that will allow onlookers to press the different dates and times and get a summary of the important event that occurred. In addition, this display board will include a section where onlookers can listen to the life of a famous slave or abolitionist, like the many people stated before, in the form of a video where when provoked to start speaking (pressing the play button) that certain famous person from that time period will begin to speak about the important aspects about his or her life. In the last part of the exhibit, there will be a 3-D section where viewers will be able to put on 3-D glasses and look at 3-D images that will show the slaves working, plantation owners in their homes, the house slaves, or slave rebellions/slaves escaping. When the people in these images are touched, they will do a certain action that is appropriate to what they are depicted as doing in the picture. For example, if you touch a picture of a slave picking cotton, the slave will start to physically pick the cotton. Do not forget that all of this will be in 3-D. All in all, this exhibit will be an essential addition to your museum because of how it accomplishes the goal of making the viewer feel like he or she is in that time period and telling the complete story of slavery from the point of view or perspective from those who lived at that particular time. Thank you so much for taking your time to read this letter. Sincerely, Raythan Pillai, Joey Judge, Fady Botros, and Nishad Agrawal 