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By 00 TELLA LORCH
t tament ment.
wo no abl
raction pre erve
lack Hi tory
"TO M PHI' white ocie.y.
Burkle was a wealthy livestock trader
and, in later years, the owner of the
city' first bakery. To hi family and
fellow conspirators, Burkle was one
of the conductors of the Underground
Railroad.
"Under thi house now called
Slave Haven. a cellar and a eri of
tunnel permitted Burkle t carry on
hi ecret work while moving freely
about among wealthy slave owners.
Burkle even kept up appearance by
owning two slaves, although they too
'escaped'," Elaine added with a
mile.
The Underground Railroad was
originally known as the Underground
Road, and u e of the original name
an tra ed t colonial time. In
1831 particular incident involving
runaway lave catapulted the con­
cept of an underground road into the
limelight.
Ticc Davids, b m a lave in Ken­
tu ky, d ided he uld not tolerate
bondage an ther day. He ran for
fr dorn, hoping to reach a Quaker
community acr th Ohio River.
kin' f r a lantern Ii ht in the fog.
Ovid warn the Ohio River' cold
current with lave tra kers in h t pur­
uit.
nne
tudied th cellar and the ground , we
found that one of the tunn I con­
tained railroad tracks, et' wide
enough for a mall cart.
ItTH L � 4 D S Y tho e
who were hidden in the cellar were
often ent through the tunnel, lyi ng
on their tomach on the flatbed
cart � very fa t and effective
means of cape" Joan added.
Under Burkle' house, runaway
slav would wait for days, weeks, or
even months for just the right time to
begin their journey. If the road w
quiet, if the night was moonless or if
a ignal came from another conduc­
tor on the Underground Railroad, the
freedom would begin.
. Standing in the dark cellar of
S\ ve H en y, vi ito can
ily imagin the fears and rifle
that the conductors and nge of
The Underground Railroad made for
the dream of freedom. Artifacts and
di play throughout the house at 0
tell the tories of people impaled by
the cruel institution of slavery.
A copy of an announcement for an
1 QO slave hangs in the front hall.
Written in the proper English of the
tim ,it peaks volumes about the
de tiny of enslaved families in just a
few words. One passage reads: "A
valuable Negro woman and 4 chil­
dren, one agirl of13, aootl¥:r7, a boy
5. and an infant 11 months old. Two
of these children will be sold with the
mother, the others eparately if it
best uits the purchaser."
Did it uit the purchaser to keep
the family intact or did he divide
them as uggested? Which two chil­
dren did the mother get to keep?
How could any mother endure uch a
decision? She might never again see
the two who were old away. Such
were the times, and Slave Haven re­
veals tories of sorrow and triumph
very. well in its collection of memo­
rabilia.
R 144 YFARS, th Burkle
house tand proudly behind its mag­
nolia trees, but is in need of repairs.
See BLACK B8
De Klerk
apologizes for
apartheid
E TOWN, U1lI
- In an unprecedented move,
South African President F.W. de
Klak recently apologized 1m
country' Bl k majority popula­
tion for tbe "I . of freedom and
misery" caused by over � years of
apartheid.
Aparthcid' the series of laws
and regulations US(d by the white
minority upp and deny p0-
lin righ to Blacks. The ystem
has n in place formally iree
1 De Kletk and' ational
Party began dismantling it in 1m
with�re fromjailofAfrican
National Co I N
Mandela De Kl r1< acknowled
that apartheid had devel ped int a
y tern which not only denied
Bl ks then human righ but
"deprived (Blacks) of their poten­
tial develop." Criti wdcomed
the logy but de Klerk
of laying a fouooation for B
YO in upooming dedi
By LORENE LA BERT
When El i ne Turn r nd Joan
Ncl n. operat rs of H ri ge Tours,
In. lead a tour group up the walk of
the Ja ob Burkle hou e in North
Memphis, they often point out the
thousand of magnolia eed pods
strew n a ro the law n.
"Here are the children of the city'
old t magnolia tree ." Joan ay to
a group. "I've never known nother
cluster of magnoli to produce
many eed pod ! The tre are like
thi h use witrsranding the te of
tim while launching th ir prog ny
into the world."
Joan Nelson i referring to the
many African-Americans who be­
came Burkle's piritual d cendents
LO;1�I.llWcwaJ {rQm 1849 863 Y P ed
u h the in ute of
lavery for the p mi e of freedom in
ht North.
The white, clapboard mansion
was on 0 many tations on th Un­
derground Railroad and a fascinating
link ir. the emancipation movement
of the 18
Ja ob Burkle, a German immi­
grant, built thi thi house, with a
ecret mi ion in mind-the freeing
of laves," aid Elaine Turner.
P R R potted
D: vid tandi ng on th Ohio hore
and be are they ould reach the pot
h had v ni hed without a trace. The
'lave tra ke aid he must nave
" ne on an underground r ad."
Word pread throu hout the
South that David had aped, and
the word Underground Road gave
new hope to thou ands of laves
100 ing for a path to freedom.
As th years p cd, th term Un­
d rground Railroad repl ced Under-
round Road a mor and more
people caped. It i beli ved that
the s cret pa a under Jac b
Burkle' hou c in Mcrnphi may
have contributed to that chan .
"In leg nd there I lway a point
of fact," rem rk d Joan el on,
Elaine' partner in Heritage Tours.
" we Ii ten d io the tori p ed
down by Burkle' granddaught rand
A mar Univer ity, once the ymbol of Ethiopian dominance h become microcosm of
how the Uberation Front i trying to rebuild Eritrea: throuthorg;.nization acrifice elf-denial
and what critic c II n arrogant If· urance th t th y will ucceed' Student' work d in
the clence laboratory.
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