Cane River Creole Nat'l
Historic Park
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After the Civil War, farming continued under new conditions. Many of Bermuda’s freed workers remained at or near the plantation, at first because the Union commander at Natchitoches ordered them to. |
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In time, though, they worked the fields under Freedman’s Bureau labor contracts, then as sharecroppers or tenant farmers. Some, like Bermuda’s longtime blacksmith Soloman Williams, negotiated separate bargains for higher pay and a different work schedule. A plantation commissary replaced the issuing of rations with a central location to buy supplied on credit against a year’s harvest. |
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Oakland Plantation |
Magnolia Plantation
| Melrose Plantation
| Other Plantations
Badin-Roque House
| Misc Sites and Churches
| Natchitoches Historic District
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