Waterford slaves were also paid for their work, and were given half-days off on Saturday to tend to their own gardens. From 1963 well into the 1970s, the light company leased the land to a company, Milliken and Farwell, Inc (I found this weird because Milliken and Farwell, Inc were the original owners of the plantation) for a share of the sale of their crop of sugar cane that they produced on the plantation. Harrell recalled a letter she saw on Whitney Plantation concerning a man who wrote about needing approval by the plantation owner to get his belongings and was determined to pay his $25 debt so he could leave. Some didnt want to leave family behind. Lloyd recalls his father making a dollar a day, and the field hands making 75
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