Reply #115: You live in the south

[rebel with a cause]

and I live in a place where some southerns came to when they decided to move north before, during and after the civil war.

Buying and selling slaves was not allowed here back then, but you could go south and buy other human beings and bring them back to the region if you could show you needed them for labor. At least that is what is shown in census of my family's history. We have a museum close to here that is called 'the old slave house'. Plantation type house that was the home of the owners of a salt mine. Went there several times growing up and was horrified by the stories told about the place. They definitely left an impression on me, especially about the attic. I don't know how others feel about a place like this, but to me it is similar to a Holocaust museum. :shrug:

The place is closed now, but the state has bought it for a historic site. Here are some links to stories about it and the haunting of it.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/slave.html

http://nowhereil.blogspot.com/2007/03/old-slave-house.html

http://illinoishistory.blogspot.com/2006/10/old-slave-house-closed-10-years-ago.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/465194/the_ghosts_of_the_old_slave_house_in.html

http://weirdplacestovisit.com/north-america/visit-the-old-slave-house-illinois.htm

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Illinois/_Texts/DRUOIH/Southern_Illinois/12*.html