solomon northrup, of course, was a skilled fiddle player. he had to come in and perform fiddle for dances and balls on -- all night long. you can understand that being forced or compelled to entertain when all you what to do is relax and be by yourself would be another form of psychological torment. in the last big bedroom, we have a statue to represent anna, the little girl. this is a reminder that people lived in the big house as well. from here, we go onto the back porch. here you can see the end of the historic murals. these patterns, by the way, come from a standard french pattern book. this is a motif that was copied from the pattern book and applied to the wall by a painter. our conservator came out here and uncovered all of this painting. you can see the condition it was in right over here. there are a couple of spots she left that are dark. you can see how deteriorated it had been. one thing she found was something that expresses a little bit of life after the civil war. you can see all of these scribbles. these were children who li

again, solomon northrup never described sleeping on a bed for 12 years. he described sleeping on the floor. people would be treated differently in different places. beds like this, about the size of a full bed today, would be a bed for an entire family, children, mom, dad, all sharing the space. you can see that there is not a lot of space in these cabins. there would not be much privacy, what we would think of as being appropriate in a family and being private. all of that living was done in just a couple of rooms with everybody together. this is an 1868 jail. this is not a slave jail. it is 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 typical design of that era. there are a few photographs of pens at auction houses that were similar to this. particularly in new orleans, there would be a front room where the auction would take place, and in the back, a small courtyard with a row of cell