Anthony Valentin

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The end of the state’s efforts to bolster labor discipline and the coming to power of local officials sympathetic to the freedmen produced during Reconstruction a kind of stalemate on the plantations. “Capital is powerless and labor demoralized,” wrote South Carolina agricultural reformer D. Wyatt Aiken in 1871. Labor was scarce not merely because fewer blacks were willing to work on plantations, but also because those who did were unmanageable. “The power to control [black labor], the Selma Southern
A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
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