Hermitage Slave Quarters, Original Site, Georgia, 1901

The cabins in this photograph were once home to families of slaves on Henry McAlpin's Heritage Plantation, near Savannah, Georgia. The brick - an unusual building material for slave quarters - was made at the plantation's brickworks. In the mid-nineteenth century, McAlpin's prosperous plantation was run by enslaved workers, who constructed and lived in around 50 of these brick cabins.