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1733 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 Feb. 4/1 To be Sold..a Plantation..good Pasture, Barn, Negro Houses, &c.

1734 New York Gaz. 18–25 Mar. 1/1 Thomas L——d keeps at some Miles distance from his dwelling House, Negro-Quarters (as they are called).

1755 Gentleman's Mag. June 258/2 To a dwelling house, barn, stable, overseer's house, negro huts, &c. 1000.

1813 E. Gerry Diary 26 June (1927) 144 Mr. Carrol has 1000 slaves, whose huts, called negro quarters, constitute a small town around the mansion.

1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 270 Suppose him as free as any other savage of Dahomy and Osgabtee and suddenly transported into a slave hut in Martinique, or a negro house on the banks of the Santee or the Savannah!

1895 G. King New Orleans 258 The electric car of today speeds through the cane-fields, negro quarters,..and pastures of these old plantations.

1913 W. P. Eaton Barn Doors & Byways 167 The old foundation stones show that the house was once one hundred and ten feet long, with a gigantic kitchen and outstanding negro quarters.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 Jan. 1 It's a settlement consisting of this sensible house, the disused chocolate-brown store in its yard, and the Negro houses sprinkled in view around it.

1995 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 25 Feb. e2/2 If it wasn't for her clothing..15 year old Sage Kimbrough just might have been able to convince her classmates that she was an 18th-century visitor from Great Britain appalled at the conditions of African slaves. ‘We entered some Negro huts for their habitations cannot be called housing,’ she told a group of surprised students.