slave quarters
Forced laborers' lodgings
Slave quarters were the housing structures where enslaved people lived on plantations and farms, typically small, crude cabins located apart from the main house.
The term appears in historical accounts and at preserved sites: The tour included the restored slave quarters behind the mansion.
Also called slave cabins.
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- shackCrudely built hut
- antebellum SouthPre-1861 slave states
- outbuildingDetached auxiliary structure
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- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- quartersdormitory, bunkhouse, billet
- slaveryenslaved, enslavement, bondage, chattel, thrall
- Antebellum Southplantation, cotton kingdom, overseer, big house, plantation owner
- colonial buildingscolonial inn, colonial mansion, colonial home, meetinghouse, plantation house
- heritage tourismheritage trails, heritage centers, plantation tours, battlefield tours, historic forts
social hierarchy and power in antebellum architecture
slave quartersmain house
Estate's principal residence
big house · plantation house · great house · manor house · antebellum mansion