so robert brownlee speaks of tabby, her slave, very briefly in his memoir. he says isabelle took her passions out on tabby. we don't know what that means, except she was treated badly and robert brownlee noticed it. we are walking through the breezeway. in the summer this is the coolest part of the house. we open both doors, and most of the family's time would be spent out here. they might take the dining room table and bring it out here to have their meals. this is the parlor. this is where if mrs. brownlee would be inclined to do entertaining, this where she would have done it. isabelle brownlee was taken from her home when she was so young. she came to arkansas when she was still a teenager and had not been married to james brownlee for very long. they arrive in 1848, and they left in 1852. the house was sold in 1852. isabelle felt isolated here, and she returned to scotland while her husband james went to california. a few yards away is where she would have had her own bedroom, and would have done most of her work for the family. this is where she would

. >> this is the brownlee house built by robert brownlee for his brother james and james' wife isabel. they did have two slaves, one of them was named habi, we do not know the name of the other slave. but tabi is the slave that would have spent her time caring for . where we are now is the bedroom. this is typical of a middle class bedroom. this is dated approximately 1848 to 1852. we know mrs. brownlee did needlework so we have placed items in here that she might have used working with yarn. mrs. brownlee is isabel brownlee who married james when she was about 14. she came here when she was about 16 years old. she was a young bride. she was away from home, far, far away from home, and was homesick and very unhappy, and she was a bit sickly, as well. so robert brownlee speaks of tabi, her slave, very briefly in his memoir, he says that isabel took her passions out on tabi. we don't know exactly what that means except that she was treated badly, and that robert brownlee noticed it. we are walking through what would be the breezeway. actually the summer this is the coolest part of the h