The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation: NOTES AND FURTHER READING

SLAVE QUARTERS Notes

Slave quarters at the Hermitage plantation, Chatham County, Georgia
Photograph by Charles E. Peterson, 1934
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (15.1,16.1)

"Aunt Lucy," the oldest of the former slaves living at
the Hermitage plantation
Photographer unknown,ca. 1915
Reproduced from Essie Collins Matthews,
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South Fifty Years After,
Columbus, Ohio: Champlin Press, 1915 (17.1)

Slave house at Thornhill plantation, Greene County, Alabama
Photograph by Alex Bush,1934
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (17.2)

Plan of a Thornhill slave house
Reproduction of a drawing by Kent W. McWilliams, 1934-35
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (l7.3)

Fannie Moore, former slave from South Carolina
Photograph possibly by Marjorie Jones, ca. 1938
Ex-slave Narrative Collection
Manuscript Division (18.1)

Front elevation of the slave quarter at the Cavitt plantation, Robertson County, Texas
Reproduction of a drawing by Barbara Rottler and Alan Hohlfelder, 1980
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (18.2)

Slave quarter at the Gracey house, Hale County, Alabama
Photograph by Alex Bush, 1935
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (18.3)

Slave quarters at Doughoregran Manor, Howard County, Maryland
Photograph by E.H. Pickering, 1935
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (18.4)

Mary Reynolds, former slave from Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Photographer unknown, ca. 1938
Ex-slave Narrative Collection
Manuscript Division (18.6)

Slave quarter from Belmont plantation, Colbert County, Alabama
Photograph by Alex Bush, 1936
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (18.8)

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