Slave quarters found at William & Mary

Originally posted on The Cotton Boll Conspiracy:

Archaeologists working at the College of William& Mary, the nation’s second-oldest college, have found the foundations of a structure that may have housed slaves who cooked and cleaned for students and faculty of theschool.

The brick remnants sit next to the Wren Building, at the core of the historic campus. Scholars believe that they are the traces of an outbuilding — possibly sleeping quarters, a kitchen or a laundry — built in the 18th cen...