This image was taken from inside a restored/preserved slave cabin on the Magnolia Plantation, near Charleston SC. The contrast between the dark and hostile interior and the light flooding in from the green and beautiful scene outside struck me not only as a metaphor for slavery but as perhaps a taste of what slaves on this plantation faced daily.
The few cabins remaining were occupied by large families, each with only half or less of the cabin. Workers on the plantation, whose buildings and gardens are open to the public, continued to occupy some of them until 1990.
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