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Lost their labor force and very large part of their wealth.

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Small farmers who had not owned slaves were not directly affected financially by their liberation.

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Feeling betrayed and resentful of the former slaves attitudes, many became more hostile to the freedman.

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They were forced to perform all of the normal household and farm duties themselves or pay their workers, but their investment in confederate dollars were worthless.

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sharecroppers tilled the land that belonged to their former position as master through a new means.

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All they land belong to facilitated by the freedmen's bureau, many entered into sharecropping relationship with freedmen and reestablished their former position as master through a new means.

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However, now they  had to compete with African American sharecroppers when they marketed their crops.

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They related with anger and resentment and joined the ranks of the vigilante groups that terrorized  African Americans.

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They were called "Scalawags" by other south Carolinian

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Some small farmers form non-slave holding districts cooperated with republicans.   

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Some small farmers form non-slave holding districts cooperated with republicans.   

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Freedmen were both liberated and displaced in the reconstruction period.

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At the end of the war, many freedmen left the plantation looking for relative sold "down the river" or seeking a taste of freedom