• Brick tenant quarters

    Cane River Creole

    National Historical Park Louisiana

HABS Oakland

Did You Know?

Magnolia Brick Slave Quarters

Brick was an uncommonly expensive and durable substrate for a slave structure.  Most slave houses were built of planks or logs and were extremely drafty.  Magnolia’s brick cabins with wooden floors provided a level of comfort seldom found in slave dwellings.