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  2. Thomas Jefferson's enslaved mistress' living quarters found - AOL

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    "I think about the daily life of people in these quarters," Hallock said. "Even though their lives were beyond their control, they were still a family and they shared this space.

  3. List of slave cabins and quarters - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Slave quarters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dogtrot houses or open-passage houses had a breezeway between the two living spaces. [11] Cabins with one room and a loft above were known as one up and one down. [12] A former slave cabin near Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, still in use as a residence and photographed c. 1936 for the Slave Narratives project of the Works Progress Administration

  5. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The washhouse is where clothes, tablecloths, and bed-covers were cleaned and ironed. It also sometimes had living quarters for the laundrywoman. Cleaning laundry in this period was labor-intensive for the domestic slaves that performed it. It required various gadgets to accomplish the task. The wash boiler was a cast iron or copper cauldron in ...

  6. Servants' quarters - Wikipedia

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    At 18th-century Holkham Hall, service and secondary wings (foreground) clearly flank the mansion and were intended to be viewed as part of the overall facade.. Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff accommodation.

  7. Domus Conversorum - Wikipedia

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    The site is today home to the Maughan Library of King's College London. " Domus Conversorum " was sometimes used also to describe the living quarters of lay brothers in monasteries . The Domus Conversorum in Oxford

  8. Planter class - Wikipedia

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    A painting by Agostino Brunias depicting two members of the planter class and their slave. The planter class, also referred to as the planter aristocracy, was a racial and socioeconomic caste which emerged in the Americas during European colonization in the early modern period.

  9. Ephrata Cloister - Wikipedia

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    The members of the order were celibate. Members were required to sleep on wooden benches 15 inches (380 mm) wide, with wooden blocks for pillows. They slept six hours per night, from 9 P.M. to midnight, and from 2 A.M. until 5 A.M., with a two-hour break to "watch" for the coming of Christ. They ate one small vegetarian meal a day.