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  • 16. Slave/Tenant Cabins

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    Before the Civil War how many families of enslaved workers live in each of the two room brick cabins?

    This room served as the sharecropper family's living room and dining room. It features a large wooden rocking chair and table with a red and white tablecloth.

    The two-room cabin is furnished to the 1950s sharecropper period.

    The second room served as a bedroom for the family with two beds in the corners of the room.

    Sharecroppers used both rooms of the cabin. Prior to the Civil War each room housed a family of enslaved workers.

    1904 photograph of the residents of the Magnolia Quarters standing around a tress in front of two rows of cabins.

    Residents of the Magnolia Quarters stand outside the cabins in 1904.

    One of the Magnolia brick cabins is surrounded by a wooden picket fence.

    A cabin in the Magnolia Quarters is surrounded by a wooden fence in 1922.