Uncle Tom says goodbye to his family and his old Kentucky home

Cold dark times arrived. The estate owners had kept and traded black slaves for generations but now the farm finally was bankrupt. All property had to be sold to satisfy creditors.

Uncle Tom was sold to a sugar cane plantation owner in Louisiana. Life there would be back-breaking for a young slave, let alone an old one. Life expectancy there was low, real low. The woman whom Uncle Tom considered to be his long-time wife, Aunt Bet, was sold to another farm in Kentucky. And his strong young son was sold to a Georgia farm owner.

Weep no more my lady. Weep no more today.

Uncle Tom imagined that he would have to wait until they were united in heaven before hugging any of them again. But until then, he would have warm family memories in his old Kentucky home of a small dirt-floored wood cabin near the mansion house. They could not take that away from him.

Weep no more my lady. Weep no more today
for that old Kentucky home far away.

[Note: This is the story that comes to my mind when I read the original lyrics of Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night by Stephen Foster, which now has the song title My Old Kentucky Home. Federal Hill in Bardstown is the place that may have inspired that song, which has become Kentucky's state song. The place that I have photographed above is My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the former Federal Hill.]

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Taken in: United States / Kentucky / Nelson (show map)

Taken on: February 21, 2021

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Camera: DJI FC3170, f/2.8, 1/15 sec, 4.5mm, ISO 130 (more info) (hide info)

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Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
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White Balance:	Auto
Light Source:	Cloudy
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1.1 (Macintosh)
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