Footsteps to Freedom 1999: Day Three

Update posted on Thu, Aug 19, 1999, at 12:59:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

Slave Auction Block Site
Old Washington, KY, near Maysville

Men went for $900. Children were $500. Women, $1500. Jerry Gore brought us to the site of the first Mason County Courthouse, the location of a slave auction block.

It was in 1833 while visiting a fellow student from Lane Seminary in Cincinnati at this house, that Harriet Beecher (not yet married to Mr. Stowe) was taken to see a slave auction. This auction left an indelible stamp on Harriet's mind that became part of the inspiration for her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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