Sentences with phrase «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).

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.

At another Swedish site, Sanda, a large house is surrounded by much smaller structures, possible slave quarters.

McCaig's grasp of historical detail allows him to move with ease from the bloodied battlefields of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville to Richmond's elegant salons, from plantation slave quarters to Bahamian banquets.

The free tour will take you through kitchen, stables, and slave quarters where you'll learn how life was back in the late 1700's.

Other old buildings include Government House (1814), the Supreme Court Building and former slave quarters along Regent Street.

Today, it's a museum where you can learn about plantation life and sugar production in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a tour of the old slave quarters, the rum still, and the windmill, following a signposted walking trail.

It was formerly the Cookhouse / Slave Quarters for the main house.

Whether it be a pre-historic pueblo, Colonial - era slave quarters, World War II Quonset hut, or a Brutalist tower is irrelevant, as long as it fits the designation of being unique and historically relevant.

Each of the cottages features original antique furnishings intermixed with newer pieces in handsome settings that include former slaves quarters, most with exposed brick walls and original beamed ceilings.

By all rights, this story ought to end with the younger son sweating in the furrows, eating in the slave quarters and spending his days serving his older brother.

In this intriguing introduction to historical archaeology, Greene spotlights five sites of recent investigation: the Jamestown Fort, the sunken seventeenth - century ship La Belle, the slave quarters at Jefferson's Monticello, the Montana battlefield of Little Bighorn, and the Five Points neighborhood in New York City, a notorious slum in the mid-1800s.

The meticulously restored Cape Dutch country manor house, on a 220 - hectare wine farm close to Stellenbosch, is one of a series of restored buildings (the others are the slave quarters, dairy and a farmhouse).

Well, enough for us to do some listless exploring of the slave quarters.