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Catalog Number |
B2016.03.06 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Hampton Slave Quarter |
Museum |
Alexandria Black History Museum |
Description |
The painting depicts the interior of a cabin at the Hampton National Historic site in Towson, MD. Hampton was once the largest private home in America. It was owned by the Ridgelys, one of the most prominent families in Maryland. From the colonial period until 1864, the family enslaved over 500 people in agriculture, ironworking, mining, marble and limestone quarrying, and mills. When Sanabria painted this building at Hampton, the site was interpreted as a slave cabin. Today, the National Park Service (NPS) believes the cabin was used for storage and workshop space, built using wood from old slave cabins. While the cabin is believed to date to the 1850s, a newspaper from 1862 was found in the daubing between the log chinking. After the Civil War, the cabin became housing for white and black workers on the Hampton estate. This painting is part of Sherry Z. Sanabria's "Sites of Conscience" series. |
Material |
Arches Paper |
Artist or Maker |
Sherry Z. Sanabria |
Date |
2001 |
Dimensions |
H-30 W-40 inches |
Search Terms |
Plantations Slave quarters Slavery |
Subjects |
Plantations Slave quarters Slavery |
Related People |
Sanabria, Sherry Z. |