People outside Enslaved Quarters at Hermitage Plantation, Chatham County, Georgia, 1901
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The cabins in this photograph were once home to families of slaves on Henry McAlpin's Hermitage Plantation, near Savannah, Georgia. The brick - an unusual building material for slave quarters - was made at the plantation's brickworks. In the mid-nineteenth century, McAlpin's prosperous plantation was run by enslaved workers, who constructed and lived in around 50 of these brick cabins.
The cabins in this photograph were once home to families of slaves on Henry McAlpin's Hermitage Plantation, near Savannah, Georgia. The brick - an unusual building material for slave quarters - was made at the plantation's brickworks. In the mid-nineteenth century, McAlpin's prosperous plantation was run by enslaved workers, who constructed and lived in around 50 of these brick cabins.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1901
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.2421
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Verso, in pencil: Taken in 1901
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