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0 0 0 C Cn co' there is the Coachman's House, a house for the estate's groomsman. This dwelling appar- ently was bulk in conjunction with the nearby stable. Formerly a ruin, the Coachman's 0 House,like the stable,has recently been restored by its owners(Figure 3.1)I m 0 In the same style as the barn,the Coachman's House was built of brick laid in the Amer- ican bond pattern of three stretcher rows to one header row.Experts who have examined it m ro think it was built about the same time as the stable—in the late 1850s.It has a single room M measuring approximately eighteen feet square on the exterior, with a rebuilt chimney and D hearth. That size, incidentally, is close to that of the rooms in the slave cabins that Paul T Cameron built at Stagville, the nucleus of his vast plantation complex, at about the same D time. LCnn c� The little building's roof was gone and the tops of the walls were missing when the cur- rent owners decided to restore it;therefore the walls'height and the shape of the roof had to 0 be guessed at in the reconstruction.Today it has a pyramidal roof, a common shape of cap for antebellum small outbuildings,and is covered in tin. rn 0 The building's most notable feature are two bricks with markings obviously etched into them with difficulty and discernible as 5 Dec. [18]65.It is thought that the occupant was recording a date very important to him.A shrewd guess has identified that date with the rati- fication of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by North Carolina on 4 December 1865.It was the amendment that abolished slaver Y.2 Another common style of slave house, a duplex, can be found on a tract of land on the north side of St. Mary's Road close to Cameron Park Elementary School. It stands some- what at a distance and slightly to the west side of the Mangum-Ruffin House on the same tract (Figure 3.z). Each of the two rooms would have housed a slave family, but not many years ago the brick structure was rehabilitated, added onto, and converted to a single-family dwelling. Originally it was identical to the old kitchen that stands directly behind the Vic- torian dwelling. Both kitchen and slave house are built of the same kind of brick laid in an American bond pattern. The dimensions of both were originally the same, about sixteen by thirty-two feet,two rooms wide and one deep,with a chimney placed slightly off center between them. Each room had its own door,opening to a small, covered porch,which extended across the fronts of both buildings.The former slave house now lacks its porch.Each room has a window of nine panes over nine flanking the doors.Although the slave house's low-pitched SLAVE HOUSES 35