Photograph: Slave Dwelling-Johnston County, NC
These one room small, cramped slave dwelings would sometimes have families as large as 5-10 people living in them.

The Boyette slave dwelling was built at an indeterminate time in the early 1800s by George Boyette or his son Larkin G. Boyette, who jointly reported eight slaves in the 1850 census.

As described in a nomination form submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, the house is a “small, one room log dwelling built of hewn and pit sawn planks held together by full dovetail notches and dowels” with a “stick and mud chimney set at the western gable end.”

Once exceedingly common in the antebellum eastern North Carolina landscape, the highly flammable wooden chimneys were generally replaced with stone or brick structures in all but the poorest dwellings — including slave houses.

The shelter provided for enslaved people in Wilson County would have been very similar.

Source: Black-Wide Awake=Documents of Historical and Genealogical Interest to Researchers of Wilson County, North Carolina's African-American Past
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