What did the houses of slaves in colonial times look like?

Answer 1

There are many different Colonial styles including First Period English, Georgian, Dutch, French, and Spanish Colonial houses built in the early 18th Century.

English colonies built their homes similar to the homes in England. Most styles of colonial houses had architecture that was very symmetrical, often square. They had decorative crowns above the front door with narrow side windows flanking the front door. They often had paired chimneys. Some of the homes had only one room that was heated by one fire.

Most colonial homes were built of wood, brick, and rarely stone.

Answer 2

the slave houses weren't really houses they had wooden buildings and very uncomfortable beds, also they didn't have any light, they only had light when it was bright and sunny out side

• they had wooden built-in houses
• no light
• uncomfortable beds
• a table to eat and hang out at

Answer 3

In pre-Civil war days they would look like poor cabins made out of logs. Possibly made out of old wood planks. It would depend on how much money the master had to spend. It might not be separate cabins, but a bunkhouse instead.

Answer 4

They look like a box left in the rain.

Answer 5

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