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 pet theory is white people love taking the "not judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character" and stripping it of all context because if you do that you can take it to mean that racism is strictly interpersonal and not societal/structural.
That is how it was presented not seldomly in Germany to me.
MLK said not to judge by skin, yet you demand reparations from white people, doesn't that make you racist :enlightened-centrism:
Love when bad men avoid having to change by slightly changing the definition of whatever they're doing.
Reminds me of that "The Language of Evil" article by Esha Krishnaswamy:
https://www.historicly.net/p/thefirstruleTL;DR, the first image in the article pretty much sums it up -- using typical corporate Human Resources jargon for literal concentration camp prisoners doing slave labor for Bayer:
https://i.imgur.com/jQstnWr.png
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.
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.
Goddamn, sharecropping and klan violence was so omnipresent that the security of being owned was a form of protection :amerikkka:
Honestly, I wish there was some General that did a coup after Johnson wasn't impeached and allied with the Radical Republicans.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_on_the_Mountain_(Bisson_novel)
The Union reconstruction measures against the planter aristocracy in the South was the least comprehensive bourgeois revolution in history resulting in near totally unchanged distribution of land
CW everything
spoiler
When she got older she went to work in the big house where she was systematically raped literally along her mother
She escaped the plantation at 14 yo
Ok? Sorry, I thought "everything" included them. Plus it also includes pedophilia.
