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.””
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.
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.
God damn America. I hope you and yours are doing okay
we’re doing aight :shrug-outta-hecks:
could be a lot worse. will probably get a lot worse soon. thanks for the well wishes
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.
Sherman shouldn’t have stopped in Georgia.
Honestly, I wish there was some General that did a coup after Johnson wasn’t impeached and allied with the Radical Republicans.
Now this is the kind of stuff I wish Alt. History was
I’m trying to think who could have been the General. I remember Matt talking about Benjamin Butler. Maybe he could have done it? Idk enough people.
August Willich? Not an American and not a general, though. Still woulda been cool.
He’s crazy enough to try that’s for sure.
The dude tried to duel Marx. I love noble class traitors.
