He is also the chief curator of the "House of Slaves, " built by the Dutch in 1776, and is the last slave house remaining on the island and Coly has painstakingly preserved its history.

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Yet on the road he dines with his slaves, and at home, his fields are mostly empty and he only seems to have slaves in his house.

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If the man of the house was rich, a host of slaves or servants did the work.

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On the ground floor of the house is the men's quarters where male slaves were housed in a row of cement cells.

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Slowly, the slaves, with their belongings wrapped in bundles or carried in old carpetbags, walked up to the main house and distributed themselves out front under the cypresses.

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