 Thus, despite these losses, the rural plantation economy managed to navigate the crisis and kept the community viable.In turn, tenant farmers and a few independent farmers filled in the niche providing needed food consumption to the regions consumers.Lastly, as income continued to recover, most of the remaining white rural and working class became employed as laborers, as plantation work overseers, skilled workers and servants, or as county law enforcement and civil servants such as Patrol constables, and Road agents, thereby gaining important cash from supporting the plantations and government.