'Slave' title causes flap for Hampton black history program - Baltimore Sun: Officials at the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson this week officially changed the name of a black history program planned for next month after controversy erupted over its original title — "Slave for a Day."
The July 8 event, which park ranger and event organizer Angela Roberts-Burton said is part of the historical site's monthly black history educational series, caused a stir on the Internet for what some believe was insensitive wording.
"By no means am I trying to, or are we the Park Service, trying to assimilate the atrocities that slave African-Americans endured," Roberts-Burton said Wednesday.
"This is just a glimpse of the hard work, being out in the heat and sun," she said.
In the initial event description on the Hampton National Historic Site website, which was online until Tuesday, Roberts-Burton used the "Slave for a Day" heading.
