Peculiar Business – Interactive Display
- Exhibit
Touch screen display
Freedom House Museum, Alexandria, VA
Diorama display with replica of domestic slave trader John Armfield’s office desk with biographical panels and touch monitor for high school and college U.S. history students; prompted multiple-choice questions progress users through the 19th century domestic slave trading business cycle. From purchasing of northern slaves through selling them for a profit in the Deep South, costs and profits are based on the records of the largest domestic slave trading company in the U.S., Franklin & Armfield Company.