Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment

Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses, managed by The Woman’s Exchange, preserves two 19th-century French Quarter homes and, through their architecture, collections, and history, inspires discourse about our collective past and its relevance to our present and future. Visitors, students, and researchers explore such diverse topics as the lives of the houses’ owners and enslaved people, free people of color, open-hearth cooking, mourning rituals, and the entrepreneurial pursuits of women.

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Shifting Landscapes in a virtual panel discussion with museum staff and our national team of historians.

Join us for a panel and Q&amp;A to celebrate the launch of our new virtual tour of Gallier House, Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment! Featuring members of the museum staff and board along with project collaborators, this virtual program will showcase the tour’s unique features and possibilities for use in the classroom. Alongside the HGGHH Director of Educational Programming and Project Director Dr. Amy Katherine Medvick, Curator Katie Burlison, and Board Member and Education Committee Chair Dr. Angel Parham, the panel will feature: Gaynell Brady, Owner and Educator, Our Mammy’s, LLC.Gaynell Brady advocates for the preservation of Louisiana’s African American history and culture through her work as a historical interpreter. Since 2013, as Owner and Educator of Our Mammy’s, LLC, she has led public programs exploring family history through the stories of her ancestors. Her past professional experience includes work with the National WWII Museum, the National Park Service’s Jean Lafitte National Historical Park &amp; Preserve, the New Orleans Jazz Historical Park, and the Louisiana State Museum. Gaynell holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Southern University at New Orleans. Dr. Walter D. Greason, DeWitt Wallace Professor of History, Department of History, Macalester College.Walter Greason, Ph.D., DeWitt Wallace Professor in the Department of History at Macalester College is the preeminent historian of Afrofuturism, the Black Speculative Arts, and digital economies in the world today. His work as a viral engagement coordinator for the Shifting Landscapes virtual tour with HGGHH expanded the project's public and scholarly impact. Dr. Leslie M. Harris, Professor of History and Black Studies, Department of History, Northwestern University.Leslie M. Harris is Professor of History and Black Studies at Northwestern University. She has authored or co-edited five books and participated in a number of public history projects, including the award-winning Slavery in New York exhibition (2005-2007) at the New-York Historical Society, and the accompanying book (with Ira Berlin); and the re-interpretation of the urban slave quarters at Telfair Museum’s Owens-Thomas House in Savannah, Georgia, which included the edited volume Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (2013, with Daina Ramey Berry). Harris is currently completing Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History, a book that combines memoir with family, urban and environmental histories to explore the multiple meanings of New Orleans from its founding through its uncertain future amid climate change. Mr. Leon A. Waters, Historian, Publisher, Social Activist, and Manager of Hidden History LLC.Mr. Leon August Waters is a New Orleans native, historian, publisher and social activist. Mr. Waters serves as the board chairperson of the Louisiana Museum of African American History. As a licensed tour host, where he directs tours on ‘hidden history’, Mr. Waters is also the manager of Hidden History, L.C.C. – a publishing, touring, and research company. He has published the book On To New Orleans: Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt, documenting the story of the largest slave revolt in the United States that happened in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Orleans Parishes. About this Event:We are pleased to celebrate the launch of Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment, a 360-degree panoramic virtual tour of Gallier House created by <a href="https://hgghh.org/" title="https://hgghh.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses</a> (HGGHH). This virtual panel discussion will bring together museum staff and the national team of historians who collaborated on the content development of the tour. We will feature a virtual walkthrough of the tour followed by a Q&amp;A session with the public. The virtual tour and the launch panel are free to the public, and all are welcome to attend. About HGGHH and Shifting Landscapes:Managed by The Woman’s Exchange, HGGHH preserves two 19th-century French Quarter homes and, through their architecture, collections, and history, inspires conversation about our collective past and its relevance to our present and future. The Shifting Landscapes virtual tour of Gallier House focuses deeply on how this site was experienced by the enslaved people—Laurette, Rose, Julienne, and François—who lived and labored there between the house's completion in 1860 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. In addition to exploring the buildings, outdoor spaces, and collections at Gallier House, visitors will be given a glimpse into everyday life on the property and how the enslaved people at the house navigated their environment on the eve of slavery’s abolition in the southern United States. The tour will explore the idea of “Shifting Landscapes”: not only the ways in which the physical spaces of the house meant different things to different people at different times, but also the many ways in which the social landscape shifted for enslaved people during this brief but tumultuous period in history. The tour also challenges us, in the present day, to shift our ways of thinking about the history of the landscapes–both physical and metaphorical–that we experience every day.

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