South Carolina African Americans – Wage Labor Gives Way to Tenancy

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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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