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Re: Slave owner or slave
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Melinda Skinner <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:09:40 +0000
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Miles Carpenter was a (white) folk artist.  I would assume the museum exhibit is folk art with an African American connection and/or reflection.

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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


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From: Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
> Not sure if this is totally an African American museum, but there is a 
> "Miles Carpenter Center" in Waverly, VA that is doing a Black History Month 
> exhibit including a folk carving of Bojangles. A local educator, Thelma 
> Wyatt, will be doing the presentation. Big story on the Second Front of The 
> Monitor, the Dinwiddie weekly newspaper.
> 
> Anne
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> Anne Pemberton
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