The National Underground Museum

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The National Underground Museum

The National Underground Railroad Museum is a great addition to a faith-based tour in Cincinnati. Visitors can surely learn something from the faith of the enslaved peoples as they struggle towards freedom and liberty. The museum pays tribute and commemorates all the efforts to “abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people.” The museum’s main exhibit is the only known surviving rural slave pen that housed slaves before they are transported and auctioned to the slave markets. The location of the museum is recognition of the role the city of Cincinnati played to the Underground Railroad, which is the way for many slaves’ escape to freedom.

Interesting Facts About The National Underground Museum

The museum’s central artifact is a 21 by 30-foot (6 by 9 m), two-story log slave pen built in 1830. It is the only surviving slave jail in the United States.
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans mainly to escape into free states and Canada. The network was helped by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the flight of the escapees. Ohio is the usual transfer point of escaping slaves from the South to the free states of the North.
The museum continues its mission to put a spotlight on slavery with its displays and exhibits featuring modern forms of slaveries that happen around the world.

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