Slave Houses, Mulberry Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1800

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Image Reference
NW0098

Source
Published in Barbara C. Smith, After the Revolution (Washington, D.C., 1985); original painting at the Carolina Art Association, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, S.C.

Comments
Painting shows the manor, or plantation, house (center); the one-room slave houses are on either side; slaves walking with long-handled hoes over their shoulders.