President & Curator Mr. Ragsdale is Founder, President & Master Curator of the Lest We Forget Slavery Museum. He has been collecting slavery artifacts over 50 years, as a result he has acquired a significant number of iron slave shackles, bill of sale documents, Jim Crow objects and many other

Speaker * Author * Film Maker * Curator Diversity Facilitator/Trainer Gwen Ragsdale is passionate about history, particularly history related to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. As co-curator of Lest We Forget Slavery Museum in Philadelphia, PA. she is surrounded by hundreds of authentic slavery artifacts; including iron shackles, manacles and other forms of ironware used to restrain and