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Looks amazing, PH....great article and pics......

Interesting and colourful journey into the past. Looks like it should be hot and steamy with all that vegetation. Educational and informative. Enjoyable blog - thanks Paul.

Garry, in summertime, it certainly would be hot and steamy, but we were fortunate to be there in temperate November. In pre-airconditioning days, many of those who could would retreat to the mountains for the summer...

Interesting that you use the words "hostile interior". I imagine it being more refuge than hostile, considering what one's experience might be in the "green and beautiful outside". I don't think we can make assumptions about an experience that, no doubt varied drastically, depending on where luck landed the residents of such basic dwellings.

Well, I did say it was as it struck me, but I can certainly see the other view as well. If it's a metaphor for slavery, though, coming into the light seems to make sense for the end of slavery.

Admittedly these cabins lacked the comforts of the white plantation owner's dwellings, but they are much nicer than many homes I have seen in my travels. I think here specifically of the huts made of cow dung and sticks in Tanzania as an example. I am also inclined to see the interior as a place of safety to those who lived in them, but understand your point and the metaphor.

I was just there. You did am amazing job describing the plantation and your photos are wonderful!

  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...

  This story started out simple: A visit to a beautiful riverside plantation, renowned for its centuries-old formal gardens. But the past is usually not so simple, and in this instance involves not only the ugly story of the slavery that made...

Samantha shares her visit to the Capitol of the Magnolia State - Jackson, Mississippi. it was one the first buildings in the state to have electric elevators.