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Southern plantations and large farms segregated the homes of agricultural slaves
in an area the planters called the Field Quarter. Pamplin Historical Park has
recreated elements of a typical field quarter to illustrate aspects of slave
life and history in the antebellum South.
 Visitors
will find reconstructed dwellings, antique livestock breeds, a garden,
a modern museum exhibit and costumed interpreters in the Field Quarter
focused on presenting a candid picture of slavery in America on
the eve of the Civil War.
Inside one of the cabins is a sit-down theatre that features a video entitled "Slavery
in America: Viewpoints of the 1850s." The video introduces visitors to
six fictional characters of that decade who speak frankly about their opinion
of slavery. Adjacent to the Field Quarter, Park interpreters tend demonstration
fields illustrating the growing of Virginia’s most popular crops in the
years before the Civil War such as tobacco, wheat, and corn.
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