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:
You just need to do the work