Point of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin facts for kids
The Point of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin is a slave cabin that was removed from the Point of Pines Plantation in South Carolina and put on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The two room, hall-and-parlor cabin is a simple, one-story building with a loft. After emancipation the building was enlarged with the addition of a second room on the rear. By 2013, only two slave dwellings remained on Edisto Island including the c. 1851 cabin from Charles Bailey's Point of Pines Plantation. The lumber used for the gable-ended cabin was prepared remotely and then assembled on site. It was listed in the National Register November 28, 1986.
The house was in use as a dwelling until 1981.
In 2010, the house (but not the land) was donated to the Edisto Island Historical Preservation Society. The group raised money and performed stabilization of the house, but the group could not raise enough money to relocate its slave cabin. At the same time, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture was searching for a slave cabin to move to the new museum and bought the Point of Pines example. The museum began the three-week long process of deconstructing the documenting each piece in May 2013. Once removed, the property was delisted from the National Register in October 2013.
