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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 ...
Reconstructed slave quarters Interior of the reconstructed slave quarters. Today, Belle Meade's grounds cover 30 acres (120,000 m 2) and have 10 outbuildings scattered throughout the estate, including the original 1790s log cabin purchased by John Harding in 1807 with the property. Harding added the Smokehouse in 1826, and through various ...
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
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.
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.
Bayless Quarters; Beall–Dawson House; Beechland (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) Bel Air (Minnieville, Virginia) Bellamy Mansion; Belle Meade Plantation; Bellevue Plantation; Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument; Belvoir (Crownsville, Maryland) Ben Lomond Plantation; Ben Venue (Washington, Virginia) Berry Hill Plantation; Black Meadow
Plantation heiress and manager Laura Lacoul Gore's (1861–1963) autobiography tells the family's history and her experience living at the plantation. Open to the public. 78001426 Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation: March 24, 1978: Thibodaux: Lafourche: 93000694 LeBeuf Plantation House: July 29, 1993: New Orleans: Orleans: Leonard Plantation: Not ...
The Hotel Maison de Ville is located in the French Quarter north of Jackson Square, in New Orleans, Louisiana. They consist of a historic hotel building (1800), a garden courtyard, and separate former slave quarters (1750s)—now cottages.