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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 ...
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 ...
B. Bayless Quarters; Beall–Dawson House; Beechland (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) Bel Air (Minnieville, Virginia) Bellamy Mansion; Belle Meade Plantation; Bellevue Plantation
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.
Jill Scott is sharing her experience of touring a former slave plantation — and her disbelief that some of them are now whitewashed and marketed as cozy vacation spots.
Much of the large former Belle Meade plantation was developed as a residential suburb by a land company, starting in 1938; today that area is called Belle Meade and is an independent city. The mansion and 30 acres were reserved for use as a private residence until 1953, when it was purchased by the state of Tennessee.
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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.