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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: November 14, 2009
Caption: Brick Kitchen
Additional Description: The center for food preparation for the family; Harriet Bratton may have supervised the planning and presentation of meals. Even as slaves, plantation cooks held a position of importance-serving fine food to guests heightened the family's social status and perhaps insured the cook a priviledged place among the plantation slaves. Outside, slaves cooked on open fires, dried and preserved foods, washed an dried clothes, and tended children.
Submitted: November 14, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p85686
File Size: 1.439 Megabytes

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