    
Title: The ramshackle homes of Slabtown Description: The ramshackle homes of Slabtown, where thousands of former slaves resided in poverty; believing they would be given free land and confusing liberty with the absence of work, these freedmen lived in ignorance and carelessness and none were skilled in labor, farming, crafts or business, living on government handouts; ignorant of any means to combat diseases, they lived in filth and squalor and, within a few years, widespread and uncontrolled diseases soon took the lives of more than a third of their numbers; blacks; diseases; Location: Hampton, Virginia, 1866 Keywords: former slaves, freedmen, living conditions, unsanitary conditions Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2325 x 1079 (2.51 MPixels) (2.15) Print Size: 19.7 x 9.1 cm; 7.8 x 3.6 inches File Size: 7.19 MB (7,534,884 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095610 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
