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https://www.heraldguide.com/news/research-shows-slaves-remained-on-killona-plantation-until-1970s/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/437573/blacks-were-enslaved-well-into-the-1960s

This is how the town's museum narrates what happened. https://scphistory.org/killona-town-history/

"Life on the Waterford Plantation sugar operation in the 1940s remains a vivid memory for many area residents, such as Leona Picard of Luling. Picard, known to Waterford workers as “Miss Dickie,” was married to the late William Richard “Dick” Picard, the company bookkeeper. “We loved living on the plantation.” she recalled. There were more than 20 small houses for employees, many built by Wilson Brady, and those live-on employees received free rent, water, electricity and a stipend for use of an automobile. “We were well taken care of.”"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My high school education was pretty bad but at least I recall learning that after the Civil War a lot of slaves ended up having basically the same lives they had on the same plantations before the war only it was "sharecropping" instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My grandfather was a sharecropper in North Carolina in the 1930s. He picked cotton as a child and was deprived of a proper education. He was barely literate in his 70s. He fought in Korea. He and his mother would both urinate in the bags of cotton at the end of their work shift to increase the weight of the yield.

there are men and women who are still alive today who worked as sharecroppers as children as late as the 1960s and 1970s, before the mass adoption of combine harvesters (go to 5:10)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God damn America. I hope you and yours are doing okay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

we're doing aight :shrug-outta-hecks:

could be a lot worse. will probably get a lot worse soon. thanks for the well wishes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And the ones that didn't were frequently grabbed by cops (who had been slave catchers before the war) for the recently-invented crimes of vagrancy and loitering and sent to prison-plantations.