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| The records of Weehaw plantation, near Georgetown, illustrate the intractable problems of labor control that persisted throughout the Reconstruction. | |
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| Owned by Henry A. Middleton, the plantation was abandoned at the close of the Civil War and cultivated in 1865 under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, with the blacks receiving half the proceeds. | |
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| Middleton was pardoned and restored to ownership at the end of the year, and for the next several seasons the plantation was managed by his cousin, Ralph Izard Middleton. | |
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| As the latter's numerous reports make clear, one problem after another disrupted labor peace. | |
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