what we noticed here when we look at this harvest record, emily kol tindz, mother of ann is not listed as workingle fields the entire month of august. if you look here, she works a few days then she's out of the fields. she works a few gaze then she's out of the fields again. we can assume ann was born in august and she was given time out of the field for health reasons and parnlly out of concern for the new mother to care for her child. emily and sampson had five more children. ann died in 1864. sadly, ann did not live long enough to see freedom. now, during the period after emancipation in the south and in other parts of the was known as con vee lease. it was a way white farmers white owners of mines and companies, white owners of timber companies could exploit black labor cheaply. what would happen is african-american men and sometimes white men would be arrested often for minor crimes or no crimes at all. sentenced and charged a fine. they would not have the means to pay that fine, so a company could then lease that convict, take him to their facility, work there and work off his f