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For Black History Month
Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing
Jobie Hill has visited 700 former residences. Many have been abandoned. Some have become storage space. Others are B&Bs.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jobie-hill-saving-slave-houses
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Miigwech
Feb 2020
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RestoreAmerica2020
(3,471 posts)1. Thanks for post and link. Marked for later reading.
Paz
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)2. You are welcome
brer cat
(27,443 posts)3. Very interesting.
It's good that many of these houses have been preserved. We don't need to forget history.
appalachiablue
(43,938 posts)4. Glad these buildings & sites are being researched, thanks.

Slave cabin in Virginia.
