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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