Slave
Dwellings
Five
log dwellings for slaves were located on Mulberry Row in 1796.
The Mulberry Row cabins were occupied mainly by household servants
-- women who did the cooking, washing, house cleaning, sewing,
and child tending.
The log cabins range in size from 12'x14' to 12'x20 1/2', with earth floors and wooden chimneys. Jefferson provided little in the way of furnishings -- a few cooking implements and bedding.
Archaeological excavations at these sites uncovered the cabin foundations, small brick-lined root cellars (in which slaves stored food and kept personal possessions), and thousands of discarded artifacts.
Not
all slaves lived on Mulberry Row. A small number who were household
servants lived in rooms in the basement-level dependency wings
of Monticello, and others lived in cabins located elsewhere at
Monticello and outlying farms.