One of the interesting things I’ve found since I’ve been down here are the back area of some of the bigger houses. They have a set of servant quarters that tend to be skinny. I asked a guy at the National Park Service about them. I thought they were probably slave quarters at one time. He confirmed that and told me that the Spanish and French wouldn’t sleep with the slaves under the same roofline.
There are several different methods of doing the servant’s houses; some of the bigger and wealthier houses have three separate quarters branching off the house. Apparently they kept the kitchens on the bottom floor and the slaves lived on the top floor. It must have been hotter than hell in the summer time.