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The upstairs porch of Ann Blessing's home in Charleston, S.C. has been a stop on a popular historic home tour. For the first time, visitors will tour the kitchen where enslaved people once spent most of their lives, toiling over hot fires.

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Looking 'Beyond The Big House' And Into The Lives Of Slaves

4:12pm September 13, 2017

by Sarah McCammon

A new house tour bypasses Charleston's antebellum mansions and takes visitors directly to the quarters where enslaved people lived and worked.