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COMMUNITY
ON THE SCENE
Crowds and Kudos for Purchased Lives
The Collection celebrated the opening of the landmark exhibition Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, i808-1865 on Friday, March 20. The exhibition, on view through July 18, has already broken THNOC’s attendance record for shows at the Williams Research Center.
A.	Lenora Gobert and Purchased Lives curator Erin M. Greenwald
B.	Pamela Harris-Coward and Sandra Castanelle
C.	Timothy Killeen reads about the St. Louis Hotel, one of New Orleans's biggest slave exchanges.
D.	Mary Niall Mitchell, Mark Cave, and Joshua Rothman
E.	Purchased Lives lender and THNOC donor Liz Brazelton, standing beside the diary of her ancestor John Pamplin Waddill
To Be Sold Symposium
On March 21, The Collection copresented the symposium To Be Sold: The American Slave Trade from Virginia to New Orleans with the Library of Virginia and the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. The event, which featured panel discussions simulcast from both New Orleans and Richmond, attracted a capacity crowd.
F.	Symposium moderator Lawrence N. Powell and panelists Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Adam Rothman, and Walter Johnson
G.	Stan Taylor and Tom Piazza
H.	Connie Zeanah Atkinson, Herreast Harrison, and Al Kennedy
I.	Sarah A. Dave and Thelma Williams
Russell Lecture
THNOC’s 16th annual Bill Russell Lecture, held April 8, celebrated the golden age of New Orleans brass bands.
J. Featured performers, the Society Brass Band
K. Andrew LeDuff, grand marshal of the Society Brass Band
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