Although never proven, she may have operated a white slave house along the river near Kew, from which women were abducted and smuggled to foreign countries.

Back of the old ruins where the slave houses used to be.

Earlier slave houses had a two-room plan, one family per room, with a single, shared doorway to the outside.

"We receive many black Americans here," said Joseph Ndiaye, the longtime curator of the slave house.

And his cursed family in be the slave house.

The overseer was responsible for healthcare, with slaves and slave houses inspected routinely.

Tom invites Sarah to go with him and speak to Hattie Bascombe, who he thinks might live at the old slave house across town.

They are the only two-story slave houses remaining in North Carolina.

Once again he was escorted out of the slave house and up the steps to the main house.

He then has Alex moved to the slave house.