Wickham House Online Tour

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Behind the scenes of this elegant home, however, lay the labor of African American slaves. Up to 15 slaves worked here at any given time, cooking and serving meals, tending children, managing household duties, cleaning white marble fireplaces, grooming visitors’ horses and moving furniture to accommodate musicians and dancing. While the head slave and butler, Robin, may have lived in the basement of the Wickham House, most of the family’s slaves had small quarters above the kitchen and stable outbuildings.