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Stagville slave house interior

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Creator
Dan Kelo
Date created
April 17, 2008
Location
North Carolina
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Interior of a slave house, circa 1850s.

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Interior view of a slave house at Horton Grove at Historic Stagville, North Carolina. The framed bed would likely have been used by adults, either parents or grandparents. The furniture depicted is not original to the house.

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.