Tenant Farmers | Pee Dee Explorer

Learn the history of African-American tenant farmers during the era of reconstruction as Karl McAlister, Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour of the two remaining hewn timber cabins from the Gregg Plantation in Florence County.

Standards

• 8.3 Demonstrate an understanding of conflict and compromise in South Carolina, the Southern region, and the United States as a result of sectionalism between the period 18161865.
  • 8.3.CX Evaluate the economic significance of agriculture on South Carolina, the U.S., and the world.
• 8.4 Demonstrate an understanding of South Carolinas role in and response to the dynamic economic, political, and social developments in the United States and around the world during the period 18621929.
  • 8.4.CO Compare perspectives toward reform that emerged during the Progressive Era.