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Slave Quarters - Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon, George Washington's (First President of the United States) Estate and Farm, utilized slaves. From around 1793 until George Washington's death in 1...
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Mount Vernon, George Washington's (First President of the United States) Estate and Farm, utilized slaves. From around 1793 until George Washington's death in 1799, most of the slaves at the Mansion House Farm lived in the brick wings flanking the Greenhouse, in four large rectangular rooms each measuring thirty-three feet, nine inches by seventeen feet, nine inches, a total living space of about 600 square feet. Each of the rooms had a fireplace on one of its shorter walls and glazed windows where this image was taken. Certain slaves on the Mansion House Farm lived in rooms over the kitchen building, while still other families had individual cabins. But most slaves on the other Washington Farms lived in poorer conditions many in bad log cabins situated throughout the estate.
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