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.”"
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.
He legit tried to make a communist cadre in the Union army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_on_the_Mountain_(Bisson_novel)
Time for a new book to read