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Our Black History in America Exhibit features nine historic cabins, built between 1790 and 1810, preserved on the property of Boone Hall Plantation. These cabins that once housed the enslaved, have been adapted to present specific timeframes throughout American History.
Enslaved gardeners and field laborers planted each oak in 1843, using hand tools. Similarly, the Horlbecks directed their workers to plant pecan trees on the plantation to cultivate a commodity crop. By the end of the century, Boone Hall was one of the leading producers of pecans in the United States. [7]
The plantation, purchased by the Horlbeck family in 1817, produced primarily Sea Island cotton. A cotton gin, smokehouse, and 9 slave cabins, all built of brick made here, survive from the antebellum period. The present main house at Boone Hall was built for Thomas A. Stone in 1936.
1235 Long Point Rd. Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464. Phone 843.884.4371 (Located 8 miles from Downtown Charleston)
Boone Hall Plantation currently features a “Black History in America” exhibit that highlights the slave cabins and different themes to tell the African-American story. Visitors view daily aspects of slave life and trace the diverse issues faced in the struggle for freedom on American soil.
May 11, 2021 · Slave history of Boone Hall. In the early 19th century, as many as 85 slaves lived on the plantation and produced handmade bricks. But slavery at Boone Hall started much before that, almost as early as the late 1600s. Slaves lived in small cabins on the slave street.
Slave cabins on Boone Hall Plantation, 1923. Now receiving wages, many of the people who once worked the fields as slaves, continued to live in the same cramped quarters as they planted and harvested rice along the unchanged rivers.
