what kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
“… [The] said Cooper Hugh’s Freedman with his wife… are to work on said farm and to cultivate 40 acres in corn and 20 acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in order, and to keep them so and to do all other work on Farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order, and to raise a good crop, and to be under the control and directions of the IG Bailey, and to receive for their services one half of the cotton and 1/3 of the corn and fodder raised by them on said Farm and said year 1867… And the said IG Bailey, party of the first part, agrees, and binds himself to furnish necessary, mules and farming, implements to cultivate said crop…”
- Contract, Marshall County, Mississippi, 1867
a. Ten percent plan.
b. Black codes.
c. Sharecropping.
d. Grandfather clause.