In focusing solely on the experience and the story we wanted to tell, we freed ourselves from the constraints of objects that either didn’t exist or didn’t tell the right story. Hallelujah! It was like a weight had been lifted. Suddenly anything was possible.

Are times changing? Will we have more and more emboldened, racially charged comments in our museum galleries? And if so, should we change the content or structure of interpretation that deals with racially sensitive issues and especially slavery?