Stagville preserves part of a vast plantation complex near Durham, North Carolina, that grew from the late eighteenth century into the mid-nineteenth century under the Bennehan, Mantack, and Cameron families. At its height, the larger holding covered about 30,000 acres, and in 1860 nearly 900 enslaved African Americans lived within the Bennehan-Cameron holdings, revealing the immense scale of slavery in the North Carolina Piedmont. Surviving features include the Bennehan House, early farm buildings, and Horton Grove’s two-story slave quarters built in 1850, the only surviving examples of their kind in North Carolina. Archaeology there has deepened understanding of the daily lives of the enslaved people forced to sustain the plantation.