![IMG_5638](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2019/03/This-Place-Matters-2-1024x574.jpg)
Joseph McGill (center), founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, and UM students and faculty after spending the night in the old kitchen behind Rowan Oak, which once housed enslaved people.
![carriage-house](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2016/11/Carriage-House-1024x341.jpg)
An unknown African American woman (center), almost certainly enslaved, with the family of Professor Edward C. Boynton in 1860.
![Caroline Barr House,](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/01/Caroline-Barr-House-1.jpg)
This 1930s servants’ quarters at Rowan Oak was the home of Caroline Barr, a former slave born in the 1840s or 1850s, who cared for William Faulkner when he was a boy and returned to Rowan Oak in the 1930s to help care for Faulkner’s daughter, Jill.
![Archaeology 2](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/01/Archaeology-2-1024x450.png)
The UM Center for Archeological Research hosts a public archeology day at Rowan Oak to educate the public about the ongoing excavation of slave quarters dating to the antebellum era.
![Arch Rowan Oak copy](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/01/Arch-Rowan-Oak-copy-1024x451.png)
Archaeology students conduct fieldwork at Rowan Oak.
![Lyceum Boynton 1856–61 copy](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/02/Lyceum-Boynton-1856–61-copy-2-1024x377.png)
The University of Mississippi's oldest building, the Lyceum, was constructed by enslaved laborers between 1846 and 1848.
![Rowan Oak deed search by arch student copy](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/01/Rowan-Oak-deed-search-by-arch-student-copy-1024x347.png)
Students search for a deed for Rowan Oak at the Lafayette County Courthouse.
![1861 UM map](https://slaveryresearchgroup.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2017/02/1861-UM-map-1024x692.jpeg)
A rendering
of campus in 1861.