I need help under standing this passage"...[The] said Cooper Hughs Freedman with his wife...are to work on said farm and to cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting that fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said 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 said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1869 ....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..."

Question

-Cotract,Marshall County,Mississippi,1867
What is the arrangements is it, sharecropping, black codes, grandfather clause, Ten Percent Plan ,can you also explain how you new and what told you that answer PLEAS HELP ME.

Answer 1

What does the passage say? The farmer and his wife are to cultivate corn and cotton, maintain the farm and the fences, etc. The landowner, I.G. Bailey, will pay the farmer 1/3 share of the corn and 1/2 share of the cotton he and his wife raise (as well as the fodder). In other words, Mr. Bailey gets 1/2 the cotton and 2/3 the corn raised by the freed slave on Mr. Bailey's land. Bailey will also furnish (and own) the mules and implements Mr. Freedman will use to raise those crops.

What kind of an arrangement is this? And what tells you that it is that kind of contract/arrangement?

Answer 2

sharecropping

Answer 3

bruh 2

Answer 4

5 years and no one has answered the question and don't go yelling at me in the comments because i know you are thinking the same thing