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CABIN

Junior Meggett said the hole in this blue painted piece of sheet metal was where his aunt and uncle wood-burning stove vented outside. Historic records show the string of cabins, built by Charles Bailey in the 1840s or 1850s, where used to house some of the plantation's 75 slaves. Meggett said he lived in a neighboring cabin that was part of a community when 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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Junior Meggett said the hole in this blue painted piece of sheet metal was where his aunt and uncle wood-burning stove vented outside. Historic records show the string of cabins, built by Charles Bailey in the 1840s or 1850s, where used to house some of the plantation's 75 slaves. Meggett said he lived in a neighboring cabin that was part of a community when 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)