African American Cooperatives in South Carolina
Courtesy of The New York Public Library
It’s unclear specifically when, but we know that during the Reconstruction era, an African American cooperative purchased 40 to 50 acres of land for $10 per acre year in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Around the same time another group of African Americans cooperatively purchased a 700-acre sea island plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. They paid off the land with revenue generated from the crops they produced and sold. They also sustained their families with the subsistence crops raised on the same holdings.
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