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CABIN

Entering the shell of a 18th-century slave cabin, 80-year-old Junior Meggett said he remembers his aunt and uncle raising their family there when he was a boy growing up on the Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Meggett said he lived in one of the other cabins that was part of a "slave street" on the plantation. 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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Entering the shell of a 18th-century slave cabin, 80-year-old Junior Meggett said he remembers his aunt and uncle raising their family there when he was a boy growing up on the Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Meggett said he lived in one of the other cabins that was part of a "slave street" on the plantation. 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)