Classroom » Multimedia
Stagville slave house sleeping area
About this photograph
Photo by Dan Kelo.
- Date created
- April 17, 2008
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2008. Terms of use
Related media
Learn more
- Search LEARN NC for history, houses, North Carolina, plantations, slavery, and Stagville.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
Interior view of the lower floor of a slave house at Horton Grove at Historic Stagville, North Carolina. The small sleeping area on the floor would likely have accommodated two children sleeping head to foot. Each room had a fireplace.
Stagville plantation is located in parts of what are now Orange, Durham, Wake, and Granville counties. Established in 1787 by the Bennehan and Cameron families, Stagville was the largest plantation in North Carolina. In 1860 more than nine hundred enslaved people lived on its thirty thousand acres. Most of them worked in the fields growing crops such as tobacco, wheat, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
