The most beautiful component of Lloyd's plantation was the garden, tended by four slaves. There was a plethora of delicious fruit and many of the slaves, from children to the elderly, could not resist breaking into it and taking a fruit. The Colonel tried to dissuade them by beating those he discovered, but this did not work well. Finally he put tar on the outside of the fence, and when this revealed the slaves who had violated his command, they were severely beating. Tar itself came to be associated with violence and defilement.