Phrases with «slave quarters»

Sentences with «slave quarters»

  • Throughout, Flanders notes how difficult it can be to research or understand what everyday houses and homes were like over the centuries; the versions of «home» we see depicted in classic works of art, for example, were often idealized, and there has been little impetus, historically, to preserve humble homes for posterity (she offers the particularly stark example of the incredible scarcity of authentic examples of slave quarters in the American South). (bookbrowse.com)
  • His mother, Capable Florence, called Cappie, a good - time gal who worked sometimes as a domestic but hated the work and made most of her money processing one of the back rooms at the Emporium — former slave quarters of the old grocery exchange, then a cookshop and hotel for negro folks passing through Chattanooga, and now the city's main brothel — in a big narrow vestibule divided by curtains into a half dozen smaller rooms that could be rented for two dollars an hour. (bookbrowse.com)
  • At another Swedish site, Sanda, a large house is surrounded by much smaller structures, possible slave quarters. (sciencemag.org)
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