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    How a Black family's Bible ended up at the Smithsonian Institution

    by Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times Jun 19, 2022 6 minutes
    The Collins Bible at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on April 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

    WASHINGTON — On a rainy spring afternoon, Denise Diggs visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was in search of a family artifact.

    Wearing jeans and a blue windbreaker, she blended in with other Washington tourists, until she descended into a dimly lit exhibition area. There, Diggs began weaving in and out of visitors engrossed by the remnants of a slave ship, a wrought-iron slave collar and a 6-foot statue of Thomas Jefferson standing in front of a wall of stacked bricks memorializing the hundreds of humans he owned.

    Diggs was on a mission — to find a Bible once owned by her family's patriarch.

    A few steps down the hall, she discovered it, amid relics highlighting the experiences of enslaved people and the role faith played on the plantation. The 62-year-old grew teary as she stared at the Bible; it was opened to the first chapter of the Book of Exodus, which recounts the Hebrews being

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