This is a picture of the slave quarters:
These Slave quarters were arranged like dorms: one brick house for female slaves along with their young children another brick house for the male slaves. These dorms were for the slaves that worked in or near the house. These slaves left their family cabins three to five miles away and were to report to the dorms Sunday night at ten p.m. They could leave to return to their family cabins Saturday night at sundown. The reality was that the Slaves that worked near or in the house wanted to spend as much time as possible with their family, Husband, wife, children, brothers or sisters, and so would walk the three to five miles Sunday night to return to work by dawn Monday morning. As you can imagine Monday was not the day to get a lot of work accomplished. George Washington did not like night walking but could not stop the need slaves had for family.
These slaves in the dorms dressed better and ate better than their families that worked the fields. They lived in brick buildings with three windows a fireplace and brick floors. They also had a bunk to themselves; even soldiers had to sleep two to a bunk. In that time most cabins had dirt floors and windows were very uncommon. Yet one must remember these were slaves and even though they may have had a good working environment they were Slaves who worked Sunup till Sundown.
Slaves in the fields worked hard during the summer months but had Sundays and holidays off. During the winter they worked shorter days because of daylight and winter. Even though the house staff dressed and ate better they worked the same hours all year long and did not always have holidays and Sundays off.
George Washing was said to be a fair man, he expected his slaves to work hard and rewarded hard work, but make no mistake he had high expectations for his slaves.

A slave dorm fireplace.