Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum, Memphis

visited many times and always recommend to ppl that come and live here, if they have never gone they should its mind changing exprience and leaves you with something you never forget .

This museum is so small that we passed it. It is an understated golden nugget of info. To actually touch and see the underground railroad is life changing. Saw this along with National Civil Rights Museum.

This place really opened my eyes to how slavery truely was. The most bone chilling part was the cellar. We had to sit in the cellar quietly in order to not get "caught". This was a wonderful experience for me and my family. We will definitely take another trip there!

Even if you don't listen to a word of the tour narration, the historical objects, displays and the documents there simply speak for themselves - at least they did for me. The museum is quaint and unobtrusive. It is not a large museum - it is an underground railroad house - go figure. This museum is very unlike the civil rights museum at the Lorraine Motel. This museum looks like next to nothing at all from the street - almost ghostly and alone and off the beaten path - not a Hollywood production. This museum is certainly not in a rich Memphis neighborhood. Visiting the house might not exactly lift one's spirits - it is a bitter lesson for anyone with a conscious. It takes a kind of courage to go there and proceed through the tour itself which is far too close. I listened to the story that is told in this museum and read the documents and saw the artifacts. Put yourself there for a short time and confront a perspective and part of our society and history there - the after-effect is priceless. In the end, I was not distracted or put off by the museum's humble presentation. It was what it should be. If you are alive it is hard not to feel the message if not touch it when inside. I tried to fight back tears and anger but some got through - in a way it broke my heart. This place is evocative.

I recently toured the Burkle Estate in Memphis TN. At the very beginning of the tour, the guide presented several untruths as fact. First he talked about how Katrina did not flood New Orleans, but that the US Government blew up the levees to keep the wealthy white neighborhoods in New Orleans from flooding. During this same segment of the tour, he stated that the black slave was still taking care of Nathan Bedford Forrest today by polishing his statue in downtown Memphis. I was so offended by these and other statements that it was somewhat difficult to enjoy the rest of the tour. This person obviously has an agenda and uses his job as tour guide to present lies as if they were fact. Slavery was unspeakable horrible and needs no embellishment. To use embellishments like he does is a disgrace to all former slaves, and also, to all who participated in the Underground Railroad.

I went to Slavehaven hoping for a tour. It was in a bad neighborhood and it looked closed and deserted. I saw no place for anyone to even park.

Our Tour Guide (a college student) was very friendly and knowledgeable. I like History and she answered every question I asked. I'm happy the home was restored to preserve history. I enjoyed all of it! Our tour guide explained photos of abolitionists, patterns on quilts and how slaves escaped to seek freedom. How the slaves lived under a house for a week to rest and to be nourished to start their journey again towards freedom. The souvenir shop had a wealth of material and info to leave with. For $6 it was worth it and I recommended it to all my family and friends!

This was truly informative. Enjoyed all of it. The items there reminded me of how simple life used to be. We were more appreciative of the things that we had and we shared with one another. Everything is so commercial and convenient. We don't use our brain when it comes to improvising...everything has to be at our feet. We made the best out of a bad situation. I loved this tour. I took my 9 year old niece and she indicated that she really enjoyed this tour. Said she learned a lot about our history.

I really enjoyed my visit here. Our guide was very insightful and shared a wealth of information on black history. What she told us about the house and how it was used and seeing it firsthand especially the trap door and cellar where the runaway slaves hid was amazing to see and feel. I would recommend a visit here!

Our tour guide appeared knowledgeable about black history but after hearing what he said about N B Forrest , I had to question anything he said afterwards. Forrest was a slave owner but he treated his slaves with respect and wouldn't split up familes. Hunderds of Blacks came and wepted at his funeral for the good he did in making amends after the war. Off course slavery was wrong but that was a different era and some slave owners treated their slaves awful but Forrest wasn't one of them. I just think people that are giving history tours need to do their research before they presnt something as fact. Other statments he made I find hard to believe but I will not comment until I do some research. Another problem everytime someone else came to the door he had to stop the tour even though others appeared to be on staff. I did find the house to be interesting.