Slave Cabin Laura Plantation Pretty awful to see - 2 families would share a cabin like this. No bed, no facilities... There used to be many rows of them closer to the sugar cane fields, away from the main house. They saved two of them and moved them closer for the tourists. The garden out front is something that the slaves would have had access to, since they were only fed breakfast and lunch. What I found really intriguing is that even after the Civil War, people continued to live in these cabins - up until the 1970s! They got electricity, but never plumbing. Even though slavery was abolished, many former slaves still worked on the plantations because there wasn't a lot of other work, and this was the cheapest housing available.

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