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South Carolina African Americans – Wage Labor Gives Way to Tenancy
Also see African-Americans - Reconstruction - 1865-1900 Main Page
Written by Michael Trinkley of the Chicora Foundation
Two kinds of tenancy – sharecropping and renting – gradually replaced wage labor. While quite different from each other, both succeeded in making land ownership difficult, if not impossible, for the vast majority of blacks.
| Tenancy Type | Landlord Provides | Tenant Provides | Landlord Receives |
| Cash Renter | Land, house, fuel | Labor, animals, equipment, seed, fertilizer | Fixed amount of cash or crop |
| Share Tenant | Land, house, fuel, 1/4 or 1/3 fertilizer | Labor, animals, equipment, 3/4 or 2/3 fertilizer | 1/4 or 1/3 of crop |
| Share Cropper | Land, house, fuel, equipment, animals, seed, 1/2 fertilizer | Labor, 1/2 fertilizer | 1/2 of crop |
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