Central Library, Julia Ideson Building
500 McKinney,. 77002
This exhibit is presented by The Houston International Festival Out of Africa: The Three Journeys. The display of archaeological artifacts and interpretations will shed new light on the ways that Africans and African Americans used spiritual beliefs to survive the cruelties of enslavement and its aftermath, the tenant farming/sharecropping system.
Artifacts and texts will examine a variety of sites, including the Levi Jordan Plantation in South Texas. Historic documents including bills of sale, labor contracts, indenture agreements and slave ship manifests are illustrative of the African-American experience from slavery to Emancipation to Reconstruction and beyond. Also included is a selection of African and African-American artwork reflecting the richness of the Diaspora.
Exhibit items are generously on loan from the Texas Historical Commission, The Star of the Republic Museum, The Robert J. Terry Library Heartman Collection at Texas Southern University and the Texas Southern University Museum. Exhibit is co-curated by Fred McGee, Kenneth Brown, Carol McDavid and Alvia Wardlaw.