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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Large Back Porch
Additional Description: We often wonder why the mansion has such an elegant rear porch, since it overlooked such a busy workspace, rather than a pleasant view. It may be that the porch allowed the Jackson family to keep a watchful eye on the plantation actives and the three areas of slave housing. The trees later planted by the LHA would not have been there to block the view. The small building visible beyond the trees was the last remaining house at the Field Quarter. For the enslaved, the mansion loomed as a constant reminder that someone might be watching. The Jackson’s had ultimate control. The lives of the enslaved were not their own.
Submitted: February 9, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192123
File Size: 0.337 Megabytes

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