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This letter describes a great museum exhibit concerning slavery.

2100 W. Fairy Chasm Road Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217

February 3, 2009

Board of Directors, United States National Slavery Museum Washington D.C.

Dear Sir or Madam: a We believe that including an exhibit about slavery during the Revolution will be a great addition to your museum. Our exhibit will be called //A Fight For Freedom?// It will tell the stories of slaves and how they fought for their freedom while the rebels fought for theirs. Our exhibit will take the viewer through a daily life as a slave and get a first hand account of a house slave during the Revolution. This exhibit will help your museum explain slavery through time periods that most people don't usually associate with slavery.a aaaaaaaaaaaa Our museum exhibit design would be similar to a mansion in New York with house slaves during the time of the Revolutionary War. At the entrance, a slave will great you at the door. She will then bring you into the library where you can see the master. He will tell you what he makes his slaves do. Then the slave will bring you down stairs to where the slave quarters are you will meet some other slaves. Then you hear a call from the mistress and you follow the slave girl up to the mistresses bed chamber. The mistress tells the girl to go get her some tea; you then follow the slave down to the kitchen where another slave is preparing dinner. The other slave complains about all the stuff the master has been making her do. Then you go in the pantry get some tea and bring it up to the mistress. Once upstairs the mistress tells you to go to the Tea Water Pump to get some water. The girl then takes you outside the house and to the Tea Water Pump on the way she explains some of her chores. Once at the water pump you see many other slaves in a line they also talk about what their masters have made them do their is also talk of the Revolutionary War. You then get the water and go back to the house. The slave has to build a fire to warm up the house. You then descend onto another portion of the museum with a lot of historical information about slavery in New York and during the Revolution. In this part there are sections where You can press a button and a voice tells you about the topic their is also words written about it. We feel that this museum takes you through the life of a slave and how they are treated. Instead of reading facts and watching videos, you will actually take part in the events of the time.

Sincerely,

Nathan G, John G, Kyler W, and Bradley S