Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Slave quarters existed in northern states (in what would become the Union contra the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War), but they were less common and few have been preserved. Surviving examples of "free state" slave quarters exist at the Isaac Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts, and at the Lott House in Brooklyn. [25]
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...
1870s photo of the brick slave quarters at Hermitage Plantation (now destroyed) near Savannah, Georgia. Housing for enslaved people, although once one of the most common and distinctive features of the plantation landscape, has largely disappeared in much of the South. Many of the structures were insubstantial to begin with. [9]
Hemings' living quarters was adjacent to Jefferson's bedroom but she remains something of an enigma: there are only four known descriptions of her. ... which includes the re-creation of two slave ...
Slave quarters were buildings or districts where enslaved people were housed. Slave quarters may refer to: Barracoon, temporary holding quarters for the transatlantic slave trade; Senzala [es; fr; pt], housing for enslaved people in colonial Brazil; Slave pens and slave quarters in the United States
A tourist looks into what was once enslaved people's quarters at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations.
The quarters at Horton Grove, which were constructed by slave craftsmen in the early 1850s, were the culmination of decades of gradual improvements at the plantation complex. The dwellings at Horton Grove represented the pinnacle of slave house development and include shuttered windows, multiple stories, brick chimneys, and raised stone ...
Slave quarters. A focus of tours of the site is the carriage house and the history of the enslaved workers who lived there, including the nanny, cook and butler. During a renovation of the carriage house in the 1990s, the owners of the site discovered one of the oldest and best preserved urban slave quarters in the American South.