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The laminated debt card pushed her off Pier Fourteen and into freedom

The laminated debt card pushed her off Pier Fourteen and into freedom

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A barefoot woman with a laminated debt card steps off Pier Fourteen into Harrow Cove - can its “cooperative” keep her?

The laminated debt card pushed her off Pier Fourteen and into freedom

In this episode, we follow how a young woman left a converted trawler community after months of grueling labor and a mounting balance displayed on a lanyard. What kept twenty-two adults tied to three vessels was not force but a ledger-and one man who ran the arithmetic.

Person: Rhonda Hughes
Person: Brian Sullivan
Location: Pier Fourteen, Harrow Cove, Pelican County
Date: November 19, 2011
Topic: Harvest debt ledger and cooperative membership

- At 5:42 a.m., road-grader operator Holly Edwards found a barefoot woman in yellow bib-overalls and gave her a ride.
- The woman wore a laminated card on a lanyard reading "HARVEST DEBT - $14,340 - BALANCE DUE."
- Rhonda had lived aboard a converted fishing trawler for eleven months, working fourteen-hour days and sleeping four hours a night.
- Membership required surrendering paychecks to a "Harvest Fund," signing a voluntary agreement, and accepting an entry debt of $2,100 that later grew.
- Access and movement were controlled by Dennis Marsh, the dock steward, and members had only an eight-minute unsupervised walk each morning.

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