What a minute, what? You're saying that slavery ended in 1865? I was just watching this older documentary on YouTube where some activists approached a group of black workers on a farm in Mississippi in 1962. One of them, Fannie Lou, says to the camera, What, I didn't even know black people could register to vote. She had been working to pick cotton the forty years on a plantation owned by a white man. Nobody even told her she had constitutional rights and it sure looked like she was practicing slavery (or being enslaved in her case). The U.S. Senator from Mississippi, Jim Eastland, actually owned a working cotton plantation with black slavecroppers picking cotton in the 1960s. He was practicing what looked like slavery. I'm sure technically slavery was over, but that was a whole region where the whites worked hard to keep the practice going in to the 1960s.

They did care what you called their black domestics and agricultural workers, a black worker by any other name was still a slave to them. As State Senator Sam Englehardt of Alabama said, "“I have worked Negroes on the plantation for years and have never had a bit of trouble with any of them. I know what is best for them... Our sole purpose is to maintain segregation. That’s what we intend to do.” Clearly, he just said he work black Americans on a "plantation." He used the work segregation instead of slavery, as they could no longer use that word to describe black American unpaid laborers. Clearly governor of Georgia Talmadge in the 1930s said "“The South loves the Negro in his place -- but his place is at the back door.” I don't anyone told him the practice of how to treat black Americans had changed. Changing a name isn't changing a practice nor the people practicing it.

I do agree with everything you said though and glad you said it. I just like seeing it from another angle or add my two cents. Thanks much as always.