Citation Information
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Title
Tenantry
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Author
Orville Vernon Burton
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Author
Beatrice Burton
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Author
Matthew Cheney
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Keywords
significant role in the agrarian society of South Carolina, Jeffersonian ideal of the independent yeoman, white landowners hired African American laborers and worked them in gang, renter or sharecropper, During World War I cotton prices skyrocketed and, for the first time, tenant farmers and sharecroppers had significant disposable income, New Deal programs
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Website Name
South Carolina Encyclopedia
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Publisher
University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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URL
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/tenantry/view/images
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Access Date
April 19, 2024
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Original Published Date
June 28, 2016
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Date of Last Update
August 25, 2022
