If you saw the message I posted at p.o-t. you'll know what this is, thought
I'd go ahead and show everyone what I am doing.  Summed up, it's a rendition
of where my Dad was born, Fairview, AL in a slave cabin on a old plantation
in 1933 which is gone now.  He asked if I could draw it out in map form
after he sketched the place out and had shown the area to me last week, all
a neighborhood now with the Black's cemetary in someones yard and street
now.  The White's cemetary at the corner of a schoolyard.  The cabin had tin
roof and vertical overlapping planks, central fireplace with no interior
walls, that he could remember anyway, but more or less two rooms.  Doors on
two sides, windows on the other sides.  The attached image isn't too great
but it's a start.

I'm always a bit foggy on the whole story of how his family ended up there
at the time (house burned down I guess) so i won't try to go into detail
here.  At least until I'm clearer on it anyway  :-)

I looked for pictures on the Internet of slave houses, slave quarters and
slave cabins to see if I could find something similar.  I didn't.  Most of
them were much better places, like motels or dorms, obviously on the better
plantations too.  One photo I saw was similar, except the walls were stucco
or something, in Florida.

bob h

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