They also owed on medical bills, which she said could total more their entire months wage. Since that time, Harrell has continued her research and documenting their story. This is such a travesty. That woman then introduced her to about 20 people who said they had all worked on the Waterford Plantation in St. Charles Parish, La., and had become indebted to the plantation owner. NO AREST WAS MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE SLAVE OWNER Why hasn't this story been more widely told? Even though they felt uneasy, they had no choice but to work and fulfill their 10-year agreement. Leona Picard, who still resides close to Waterford, worked along with her husband at the commissary store on the plantation (see Figure 8-1), and raised her family in what she remembers as a very good lifestyle. One of its last residents was Fred Jackson, an African American who worked as a chauffeur to Virginia Governor Westmoreland Davis, of nearby Morven Park, around 1920. Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s. VICE, 28 Feb. 2018, https://www.vice.com/en/article/437573/blacks-were-enslaved-well-into-the-1960s. They formed a bond with one another with hard work, sharing and mutual assistance. The women of the family were brutally raped, and the men were brutally beaten. Memories of the Waterford Plantation sugar operation in the 1940s are vivid. He was a little black man, with no teeth, who didnt know how old he was, who his family was or where he came from. Anyone interested in joining or helping Friends of the Slave Quarters should contact (function(){var ml="oguach40vlif.reqmdn%ts",mi=";=:>BAE0;D5>E938>?23=D>=EC671@3:9<40@",o="";for(var j=0,l=mi.length;j