Although household-level subsistence farming continued in some areas of Union County, by 1820 much of the study area was consolidated into large slave-holding plantations dominated by cotton production. Following the emancipation of the slaves at the end of the US Civil War (ca. 1865), ...
Baygr1ic9u20lt,utrhael eexffpecotrst obfetawgreiecunlt1u8r4al9 and 1949. Cotton covered approximately half of Union County's fields and corn occupied a quarter, leaving one quarter of the county's fields for other crops. By 1920, the effects of agricultural improvements and material input...