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On a large still functioning plantation in Georgia, I found this remnant of America's past history. The plantation had a large and very beautiful home. Then we came across these old slave cottages. Walking down Slave Road and around these cabins gives just a slight feeling of what the lives of slaves was like in those days. We really have come a long way since that, and we can all be thankful for that!
This one was made from the original Hermitage home. Somehow, they removed the second story from the original building to convert it to slave quarters
I captured this scene with my iPhone 12 Pro Max while visiting the Magnolia Gardens in Charleston, SC. Some of the cabins were lined with newspaper, such as this one, used for insulation.
2604 Slave House sign – Historic Brattonsville, 1444 Brattonsville Rd., McConnells, York, SC. May 1, 2009. Decimal degrees: 34.865135, -81.175617
"A House of Untold Stories"
"Every brick in this building is a testament to the enslaved African Americans who once lived on this plantation. The 1860 census lists Harriet Bratton owning eighty slaves and twenty slave houses. Of those houses this cabin is the lone survivor. Built around 1828 it was one of about four brick quarters clustered around the plantation house. Building with brick was expensive, so most slaves lived in simple wood cabins. These brick cabins may have served to demonstrate the Bratton's wealth and status in the community.
Although it is uncertain who lived in this cabin, its proximity to the main house suggests that the inhabitants were slaves who worked in and around the house. Individuals who were skilled in trades such as blacksmithing and woodworking may have also lived in the brick cabins surrounding the Homestead. Despite better living conditions the occupants of these houses had virtually no rights, worked at the desire of their owners, and lived in conditions not of their own making.
1843 Slave Inventory
At the time of his death in 1843, Dr. Bratton owned 139 enslaved individuals. This made him one of the largest slave owners in York County.
Slave Cabin Artifacts
These artifacts- buttons, a glass bead, a comb and dish fragment uncovered during the excavation of a collapsed slave cabin- give us insight into the possessions and daily lives of the enslave community.
Slave Made Brick
In addition to working in the fields, Bratton slaves also made bricks for use on the plantation. Found at Historic Brattonsville, this brick bears the fingerprints of its enslaved maker."
Detail from a well dressing in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, UK. The whole well dressing is shown here: Slave Trading
What is Well Dressing? (peakdistrictonline)
Its origins are something of a mystery and may date back to the Celts or even earlier. The church banned it as water worship, but the tradition refused to die. Tissington revived the custom in 1349, Barlow started dressing wells in Elizibethan times and Tideswell began 'tap dressing' when piped water came to town.
Well dressing is only found in or near Derbyshire and, at its simplest, it's the art of decorating springs and wells with pictures made of growing things.
So how can such intricate and detailed pictures be made using only flowers, berries, leaves? It all starts with a wooden board that's thrown into the local river to soak for a few days. Then it is hauled out and filled with soft, wet clay.
The next job is transferring the outline of the picture to the clay, and every village has its own way of doing this. Some use wool, others use bark or alder cones, known locally as 'blacks'.
Then the picture is coloured in. Some villagers call this 'petalling', but in Holymoorside it's 'flowering' because instead of petals they use whole flower heads. Dressing a well can take a team of people up to 7 days to complete and it will only last about a week before the clay dries and cracks and the flowers fade.
Tenuous Link: Black hair (or representation thereof)
Slaves of the Son of Heaven by Roy H. Whitecross 1951.
The personal story of an Australian prisoner of the Japanese during the years 1942-1945.
Published by Dymock’s Book Arcade, Sydney. Green boards, 246 pages 15cm x 22cm.
Roy Whitecross risked his life by keeping a diary of his time in Changi prison, the Burma Railway and as prisoner in Japan; and detailing the privations the pow’s faced daily, and the cruelty of the Japanese.
Here we are (my sister in front with the goofy face and me, slaving away) inside the trailer we traveled in for two years through Europe and Northern Africa.
In order to receive food and clothing we were required to get up at dawn and begin slaving away - scrubbing down the exterior, washing the windows, scrubbing the...Yeah, right! I whined about the few chores I did have. I'm pretty certain my parents had to bribe me with something sugary in order to get me to touch those dirty dishes.