Standing quietly beneath a canopy of live oaks draped in shadow, these low tabby-and-mortar slave quarters at The Hermitage plantation outside Savannah, Georgia carry a weight that no hand-tinted color can soften — each small doorway a portal into lives of forced labor on one of the antebellum South's most productive rice plantations, where hundreds of enslaved people built both the land and the fortune of planter Henry McAlpin in the early nineteenth century. The warm ochre of the tabby walls (a coastal Georgia building material made from oyster shells, lime, sand, and water) glows against the dappled forest floor, lending the scene a deceptive pastoral beauty that was the explicit intent of "Lost Cause" tourism postcards produced across the South in the early twentieth century. Published by A.L. Kanter of Savannah — a prolific local purveyor of "local views" whose blue embossed seal appears on the reverse — this card is both a document of a historic site and an artifact of how that history was deliberately reframed for white tourist consumption. The Hermitage tabby quarters survive today and are recognized as significant African American heritage structures.