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Many freedmen left the plantatrion looking for relatives. sold "down the river".

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As a result of the thirteenth amendment, plantation owners lost their labor and a very large part of wealth.

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Many astonished that their former slaves, who they thought were loyal to them

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They left the plantation and all they had was land.

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Many entered into sharecropping relationships with freedmen and reestablished their former postion as master through a new means.

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Small farmers who had not owned slaves were not directrly affected financially be their liberation

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They were called "scalawags" by other south carolinians

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Small farmers from non-slaveholding distincts cooperated with the republicans because they would benefit from the educational and economic opportunities they offered.

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Many who had felt a sense of social superiority to slaves now felt that superiority threatened.

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The reacted with anger and resentment and joined the ranks of the vigliante groups.

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Most returned to the area the they knew best.

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When they returned the moslty likely returned to the former plantations.

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The sharecropper was able to move away from the old slave quarters, the sharecropper in a cycle of debt and dependence on the landowners.

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The landowners supplied the seeds, tools, and land and the sharecropper supplied the labor

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The impact on women of the reconstruction period depended on their social class. Both the wives of elite plantation onwers and small farmers shared their husband's loss of social status.

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Many white women took on non-traditional roles.

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As a result of the constitituion of 1868, women acheived some rights, including the right to own property in their own name after marriage.

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Former slaves, "carpetbaggers" and "scalawgas" pushed for some women's rights.

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Elite white women had to negotiate household services from former slave women or perform, household tasks themselves.

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Both men and women, came to south carolin as teeachers, missionaries, or enterpreneurs

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Some of them cme as union soldiers and when they came they stayed.

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They were reviled as "carpertbaggers" they were not accepted by most of white south arolina society

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Some found polictical opportunity in the Reconstruction government.

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Some found economic opportunities in the Reconstruction government.