image, in which the north elevation of the slave quarters is barely visible over here. but you get the sense of it, its size and shape. the african-american men pictured in the foreground could have been servants living in the slave quarters. i am going to continue to use that term to talk about the building, not only because it makes clear the original intent of its construction, but also because it was its vernacular name used for it across the 20th century. 1880 census listed three african-american servants, william hanson, john smith, and elizabeth abby living in the house of edward beal. by 1900, the population of servants living on the property had doubled. of the six servants living on the property, five were classified by the census as black. mazie worked as a reader. ellen, a ladies made. emma thomas worked as a land dress and was the only married servant in the household. lloyd lyles, a coach man, aid adolph bird worked as a butler. only one of the african-american