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CABIN

Eighty-year-old Junior Meggett stands in the window of the 18th-century slave cabin his aunt and uncle lived in when he was a boy on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Historic records show the string of cabins, built by Charles Bailey in the 1840s or 1850s, housed some of the plantation's 75 slaves. Meggett said he lived in a neighboring cabin that was part of a "slave street" and his family worked on the plantation in the early 20th century. The cabin was recently dismantled and shipped to Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)

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Eighty-year-old Junior Meggett stands in the window of the 18th-century slave cabin his aunt and uncle lived in when he was a boy on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Historic records show the string of cabins, built by Charles Bailey in the 1840s or 1850s, housed some of the plantation's 75 slaves. Meggett said he lived in a neighboring cabin that was part of a "slave street" and his family worked on the plantation in the early 20th century. The cabin was recently dismantled and shipped to Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)