I visited the Boone Hall Plantation recently and learned so much about the plantation and South Carolina. I will be writing about the experience for magazine and online publication and I’ll post on my home page when its in print.

For now, here’s some information taken from www.south-carolina-plantations.com. The pictures I took are of the chapel, but I was told during the tour that the slave cabins were the same size as the chapel, but the cabins were home to three families! I was also told that slaves purposely tried not to have children, as they didn’t want their children to be born into slavery. Now, I must say, that for all of the TV series and Hollywood films, I’ve not seen evidence of this…I’ve always thought about it. Does anyone know of a film that depicts slaves consciously not having children?

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