Evening for Educators: Purchased Lives
Programs
March 8, 2017 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us for a FREE event exclusively for teachers. Explore the Museum’s special spring exhibition focusing on the American domestic slave trade.
Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808-1865 examines the lives of individuals intertwined in the domestic slave trade by exploring slavery’s reach beyond New Orleans and Galveston, beyond Texas, beyond the South, and into the very fabric of America. The exhibition uses first-person testimonies and original artifacts to explore how human beings were forced across the country, fought to resist enslavement, and how human lives became a primary currency of America’s pre-Civil War economy.
Event Details
Experience the Bullock Museum – the biggest classroom in Texas – through special tours, activities, and film screenings. Designed for teachers of all grade levels and subjects, this free event will introduce new film-related curriculum guides and activities, professional development opportunities, and unique classroom resources. Enjoy prize drawings, refreshments, the company of fellow teachers, and receive an SBEC-approved certificate of participation.
Come anytime from 5:00-8:00pm, but you won’t want to miss these scheduled events:
5:00 pm Refreshments in the Grand Lobby
6:00 pm-6:15 pm Exhibition Sneak Peek!
Get an exclusive early behind the scene look at the Bullock Museum’s spring special exhibitions: Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience.
6:15 pm-7:15 pm Featured Activities
- Explore the Purchased Lives exhibition using a student and family activity guide.
- Discover methods for teaching the American domestic slave trade in your classroom using some of the primary sources that give individual voices to enslaved people.
- Make connections to Texas' unique history with slavery by examining artifact additions to the Museum's Texas History Galleries.
7:30 pm Prize Drawing
7:30 pm-8:00 pm Free time exploring exhibitions
The event is free of charge, and parking is complimentary in the Museum’s garage.
Questions? Contact (512) 936-4604 or education@thestoryoftexas.com
Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865 has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Support for the Bullock Museum's exhibitions and education programs provided by the Texas State History Museum Foundation.
Banner image courtesy The Historic New Orleans Collection
