Freedom Center

Hello fellows,

This morning we visited the Freedom Center, a unique museum about the slavery and racism against Native Americans. It's location suits perfectly, because here on the Ohio river was the border between the Southern and the Northern States. In the south it was allowed to have slaves and in case they had fled, the owners could go north and try to get back their possession 'Negro'.

Especially I was impressed by a tour called "Brothers of the Borderland". The tour consisted of two movies seperated by a way or better stressed like a move in the movement against slavery. Escaped slaves were hunted like livestock, traced by horses and dogs. Without the enormous efforts of Northern Americans so many slaves couldn"t survive. The network called "underground railroad" transported negros across the river and hid them before following explorations. In the second movie you saw from the southern bank of the Ohio river to northern on the screen. You really got the feeling intensified by the noises of a night close to a river that you would be in the same situation like the refugees. In these days the Northern star helped to find the way to the North.