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Many urban slave quarters were preserved after Emancipation because they served as still-useful servants' quarters, guest quarters, store rooms, etc. [2] The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2014) described slave quarters in the border-state city: "Generally, urban slaves' quarters were connected to their owners' property, usually in 'servant's ...
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 ...
Floorplan of a typical dogtrot/breezeway house in the Southeastern United States One of several dogtrot houses formerly used as slave quarters at the plantation of Thornhill near Forkland, Alabama. This photograph was taken in 1934; the dwelling was subsequently destroyed. Note the split-shingle roof and stick-and-mud chimney.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-478, "Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL", 92 photos, 1 color transparency, 4 measured drawings, 5 photo caption pages; HABS No. FL-478-A, "Kingsley Plantation, Slave Quarters", 12 photos, 2 measured drawings, 1 photo caption page
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.
Of great significance are the 22 slave quarters, arranged in a double row along an allée of oak trees. Among the outbuildings are a garconnière, where young bachelors of the family or male guests could stay; a pigeonnier for keeping pigeons (a sign of status among the planters); an overseer's cottage; and late 19th-century barns.
As many as 135 slaves lived and worked on the property prior to the Civil War. ... Shotgun Quarters", 5 photos, 2 color transparencies, 1 measured drawing, ...
In 1860, 900 total slaves were held on the complex. The several structures still standing at Horton Grove are the only two-story slave residences remaining in North Carolina. [2] 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 ...