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", Saffer said, "The actions of some of your ancestors are things you can't control. 23. Each building is 16 by 20 feet and has three rooms, one above the other. Peon was short for peonage or involuntary servitude, which Harrell said those held on Waterford Plantation told her was perpetuated primarily through debt. The government did know. He was forced to work sunup to sunset with little food or rest. The Eppes family were very wealthy and had many servants. As Saffer was completing his research, people interested in preserving the slave quarters and learning more about its residents and owners formed the Friends of the Slave Quarters, which became a nonprofit corporation in 2001. If you can hide a Still or a Meth lab, then how hard do you think it would be to hide an indentured servant? It wasnt fair and most of them knew it. Lloyd recalls his father making a dollar a day, and the field hands making 75
