Magnolia Plantation near Charleston has restored four slave cabins.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina plantation is telling the story of how blacks lived on their journey from slavery to freedom.
Magnolia Plantation near Charleston has restored four slave cabins showing how they looked during slavery, during Reconstruction, during the Jim Crow era of the 1920s and during the civil rights movement.
Eighty-six-year-old Johnnie Leach raised 13 children in one of the cabins where his family lived until the late 1960s. Their only modern convenience was an electric line powering a couple of lights.
His 52-year-old son Isaac, who works at the plantation like his father before him, says he never thought of having it hard growing up in the cabin.
And he says he misses some things such as the taste of food cooked on the family's wood-burning stove.
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