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Question of the Day By ANDRE TORAN and Louisville Courier-Journal - Associated Press - Sunday, February 28, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Fugitive slaves once stood on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky, gazing across its waters at the Indiana coastline and realizing that freedom was within a mile.
Some jumped in and swam across, some waited patiently, or fearfully, for conductors of the Underground Railroad to signal when it was safe to cross. Some never made it at all.
Their faces, their stories, the outcome of their crossing often unknown, forgotten by history, the outcome of their tales seemingly unimportant, whether they made it safely into the free state of Indiana or if they were captured by slave catchers and returned to their masters in Kentucky and throughout the South.
Fugitive slaves once stood on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky, gazing across its waters at the Indiana coastline and realizing that freedom was within a mile.
Some jumped in and swam across, some waited patiently, or fearfully, for conductors of the Underground Railroad to signal when it was safe to cross. Some never made it at all.
Their faces, their stories, the outcome of their crossing often unknown, forgotten by history, the outcome of their tales seemingly unimportant, whether they made it safely into the free state of Indiana or if they were captured by slave catchers and returned to their masters in Kentucky and throughout the South.
Milestone Auctions sets new house record with $1.5M sale of historically important firearms
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1880s hand-painted figural iron shooting gallery target depicting drummer with carved-wood hands. When target above shoulder is hit, figure plays drums. Provenance purportedly includes display at Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Ky. Sold for $27,000, more than four times the high estimate
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WILLOUGHBY, Ohio â An 1859 Berdan Sharps rifle, Sammy Davis Jrâs .357 Magnum, and a Walther pistol from Hitlerâs mountaintop retreat were among the highlights in Milestoneâs record-setting January 30 auction, but it was an artful and unusual shooting gallery target that unexpectedly rose to the top of prices realized. The 33-inch-high painted metal and wood target figure of a medieval drummer had attracted a flurry of enquiries in the run-up to the $1.5 million sale. Collectors