House Servants Quarters
House Servants Quarters
The duplex design of this pre-Civil War structure was
typical of slave quarters in the plantation days. Identical
quarters were duplicated on either side of a common
chimney that had a fireplace on both sides for each
family. Plainly furnished with only the bare necessities,
these small living quarters were usually home to very
large slave families. At one time over 350 slaves worked
the lands of Hofwyl-Broadfield. They would have lived in
cabins similar to this in communities located throughout
the plantation.
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