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Estate further validates the presumption that the Burkle Estate was a part of the Underground Railroad. This is because keeping physical evidence of the Underground Railroad would have been dangerous for the Burkle family as it would have revealed their role in the Underground Railroad. A trapdoor, and a hidden staircase inside the Burkle Estate house, which are rather abnormal characteristics of a home, also are used to suggest that the Burkle Estate played a role in the Underground Railroad.
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on the Underground Railroad. Many believe his home was the last stop in a series of Memphis homes connected by tunnels. The house included a small cellar which might have been used to hide escaping slaves. Slaves could then get on boats to take them upriver to other way stations in the free states
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In response to the claim that there is not enough evidence to suggest that the Burkle Estate was in fact a part of the Underground Railroad, Historians from Memphis' public library system proposed a counterargument. The historians suggest that the lack of primary, physical evidence of the Burkle
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heritage of Memphis. The museum documents the history of the Underground Railroad and the possible role of the house in that secret escape network. Slavery, slave trade, slave auctions and the everyday life of slaves in the wider Memphis area are also documented in the museum.
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The role of the home as a part of the Underground Railroad is subject to debate. There is a significant lack of physical, primary evidence suggesting that the Burkle Estate was a part of the Underground Railroad.
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The house opened as a museum in 1997 and tours of the one-story, white clapboard house are available. The house is decorated with 19th-century furnishings and artifacts and served as part of the overall
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It is understood by some that The Burkle Estate may have served as a way station on the
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Memphis, TN
Bus interchange
MATA
Memphis, Tennessee
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad
baker
Ohio River
civil rights
List of Underground Railroad sites
List of museums in Tennessee
History of Memphis, Tennessee
"This Train Traces the Route of Black Migration North"
"Mississippi Learning"




"People's power: Memphis' early history of race, resistance, and Black political power"
"In Memphis, a Crash Course on the Civil Rights Movement"
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"African-American Heritage in Memphis"
Encyclopædia Britannica - Underground Railroad
Information about the Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum (Burkle Estate)
Information from Memphis Travel
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