Originally from the Allendale Plantation in the West Baton Rouge Parish of Louisiana, this circa 1840, frame-construction cabin housed enslaved families, who worked on the plantation. As a means to preserve the physical place and the stories of the people that inhabited the cabin and the plantation writ large, this cabin, along with two other cabins, was relocated to the West Baton Rouge Museum. The three cabins are used to interpret the lives of plantation workers through different social ages, namely- Slavery and Freedom, Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era, and 1950s and 1960s.
The first cabin to be relocated to the museum grounds in 1976, the interiors of this cabin imagines and interprets the life of enslaved plantation workers of Allendale Plantation in the decade leading up to the Civil War.
Thank you, West Baton Rouge Museum, for letting us study and document the structure.
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