The theme of the United States National Slavery Museum: reconciliation, not recrimination.
That's what L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia and present mayor of Richmond, stressed at Saturday night's fund-raising fete for the planned museum. That's what the evening's high-end performers -- comedian Bill Cosby and entertainer Ben Vereen -- pointed out again and again to the 1,350 people at the Warner Theatre. That's what architect Chien Chung Pei said he is trying to reflect in his airy, ambitious design for the museum, which is to be built in Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River.
