Reflective day… First, I went to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Not only did this informational and insightful museum thoroughly and compellingly document slavery itself, but it also discussed the fight for freedom, the consequences of wars and politics, and the current state of slavery amd oppression. Please note that I only have a few photos as I fully immersed myself at the museum.
Following the Freedom Center and lunch, I strolled along the River Walk – pleased to find a labyrinth at the start of the trail. What a powerful means of reflecting on what I learned at the museum and transitioning to my consideration of the Ohio River and Cincinnati’s cityscape. This promenade provided a visualization of the role of this river, which separates Kentucky, a slave state, from Ohio, a free state.
One of many murals
The RagGonNon, a textile work of artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson.
The Slave Pen, built in the early1800s and recovered from a farm in Mason County, Kentucky, was used as a holding pen to temporarily store enslaved people purchased by Capt. John W. Anderson before he sold them at auction in Natchez, Mississippi.
Labyrinth
The many bridges across the Ohio River reminded me of Budapest and Prague.
A riverboat
Worst maritime disaster – 200 more people died on this boat, built in Cincinnati in 1863, than on the Titanic.
