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Slave Cabins on Slave Street, Magnolia Plantation. Photo by the Author.
My family and I visited Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina last week during a winter holiday. Our guide walked us down “Slave Street”, and seated us on open benches like summer campers ‘round the campfire hushed for the true ghost story that is America’s slave history. Four of the original slave cabins remain, built in the 1850s. The cabins consist of two single square rooms about fourteen feet square, one room each for an extended family of about eight enslaved people. Light shone through the floorboards, open to the chilly December morning breezes. Children slept on planks in the shallow attic above open collar beams.