Plowing in South Carolina, 1866, sketch by James E. Taylor, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress.

Unit Three: Land and Labor outlines the challenges of implementing free labor ideology in the post-emancipation U.S. South, particularly in a context of "land monopoly," where small-scale land ownership was difficult to obtain. The Unit Three educational documents listed on the left feature excerpts of various primary source documents and first hand accounts that provide in-depth insights into struggles over land ownership and free labor in North and South Carolina.