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0 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> C <br /> In <br /> co' <br /> roof is now covered by modern shingles, originally it would have had either cedar shingles <br /> or a standing-seam tin roof like that on the old smokehouse standing beside the kitchen.As 0 <br /> with the kitchen porch,the slave house porch would have had an engaged roof supported by m <br /> 0 <br /> four plain wooden square posts. <br /> These two buildings and the smokehouse were clearly all built at the same time,proba- m <br /> bly in the 1840s during the tract's ownership by Priestly Mangum(ca.1795-1850),a prominent M <br /> lawyer, county solicitor, and younger brother of Sen.Willie P.Mangum. Priestly Mangum D <br /> lived on this tract of land from 1824 until his death.3 Thomas R. Cain (1831-82), who suc- T <br /> ceeded Mangum as owner and lived there even after the junior Thomas Ruffins moved in D <br /> with him in 1870, could also have built the brick outbuildings. However, the earlier date is n <br /> the more likely <br /> w <br /> A third known slave house, also a duplex, still exists at Sans Souci, just outside town o <br /> limits(Figure 3.3).Situated behind and to the north of the plantation house,this slave house <br /> unlike the other two is built of wood. Each of its two rooms has its own entrance with a o <br /> window beside it,like the slave house on the Mangum-Ruffin property described above.It <br /> stands on a brick foundation with a central chimney.Lacking a porch,a stoop of three steps <br /> provides entry to each door.The roof while now of tin might once have been cedar shingles. <br /> Today the slave house has a shed room built across the back,divided into a very small bath- <br /> room,mudroom,and pullman kitchen to make the house habitable as a modern dwelling It <br /> is now painted white like all the other outbuildings and the main house. <br /> The Sans Souci slave house may date to the ownership of David Yarborough, who <br /> bought the property in 18rz. It is very much of a piece in appearance and age with other <br /> outbuildings on the tract(except for a much later carriage house);but all of them likely date <br /> from the period when William Cain Jr.(1784-1857)owned Sans Souci(1830s-1856).The Cams <br /> acquired Sans Souci from Yarborough, according to Cain's will,but no deed or other docu- <br /> ment gives a date for the deal.Since the Cams sold their house at Burnside to Paul Cameron <br /> in 1834,the year William Cain Jr.'s father died,it seems possible that they moved about that <br /> time. It is almost certain that it was the Cams, wealthy landowners, who added a wing to <br /> the house and made other improvements from the 1840s on.Consequently,it seems probable <br /> that the outbuildings,including the slave house,were part of that improvement effort. <br /> The only slave/servant house remaining in the town historic district stands in a row of <br /> outbuildings behind the early nineteenth-century Ruffin-Roulhac House, now used as the <br /> 36 HIDDEN HILLSBOROUGH <br />