Arriving in Faceville in December of 1899, Moore stayed at the estate of Judge HB Spooner. After the War, the Judge's estate had been converted from a cotton plantation into a quail hunting preserve; a sort of bed and breakfast for wealthy northerners wanting to do some hunting. Moore hunted a bit, but he was mainly interested in photographing the black staff and tenant farmers who worked on the estate. This would be the first of three such estates he visited in the next two years for the same reason; do a little hunting and a lot of photography of the black people living there.