in fact, solomon northup, he never described sleeping in a bed for that full 12 years. also described sleeping on a pallet on a floor. beds like this about the size of a full bed today, this would be a bed for an entire family. children, mom and dad, they'd all be sharing space and you can see there's not a lot of space in these cabins so there wouldn't be much of a sense of privacy, what we would think of being appropriate in a family and being private. all of that living was done in just a couple of rooms, everybody together. this is an 1868 jail that we brought in. this is not a slave jail. it's from a few years after the conclusion of slavery. but we brought it in as a learning tool so that we can see the types of typical spaces where enslaved people were confined, especially leading up to sales. this is a very typical design of that era and you can see there are a few photographs of pens in the backs of auction houses that are similar in design to this. so typically at an auction houssay like you would find in the city of new orleans there would be a front room whe

in fact, solomon northup, he never described sleeping in a bed for that full 12 years.also described sleeping on a pallet on a floor. beds like this about the size of a full bed today, this would be a bed for an entire family. children, mom and dad, they'd all be sharing space and you can see there's not a lot of space in these cabins so there wouldn't be much of a sense of privacy, what we would think of being appropriate in a family and being private. all of that living was done in just a couple of rooms, everybody together. this is an 1868 jail that we brought in. this is not a slave jail. it's from a few years after the conclusion of slavery. but we brought it in as a learning tool so that we can see the types of typical spaces where enslaved people were confined, especially leading up to sales. this is a very typical design of that era and you can see there are a few photographs of pens in the backs of auction houses that are similar in design to this. so typically at an auction houssay like you would find in the city of new orleans there would be a front room wher