Slave Quarters
The original house had a kitchen wing. The second floor of the kitchen wing included living quarters for the six to eight household slaves who worked and lived in the main house. There were also other slaves on the property who maintained the nearly seventy acres of fields and orchards and cared for the farm animals.
This section of the house is the most altered. The space originally consisted of two rooms that were partitioned from the rest of the house by a wall. A ladder-stair from the room pictured led to the kitchen below and provided access for the slaves to the main house.
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