Plantation Commissary at Rosemary

The commissary building at Rosemary plantation in Wilcox County. After the Civil War, as slavery shifted to sharecropping, such "commissaries," or plantation stores, became a common feature on many large plantations, especially in the western Black Belt.

Commissary building at Rosemary Plantation in Alabama
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey
Commissary building at Rosemary Plantation in Alabama