Slave house (ca. 1851) at Horton Grove, Stagville Plantation, Durham County. This house would have been home to four slave families. Photograph by Paulette Mitchell. The material remains of slave life in North Carolina are all but gone. Yet on a gentle knoll in Durham County, surrounded by the fields and forests known as Horton Grove, several weatherworn structures stand as a reminder of the vital culture that African American slaves developed in the state.

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