Use the passage to answer the question.

"…[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 the 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 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
What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
a sharecropping
b black codes
c grandfather clause
d ten percent plan

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5 months ago

a) sharecropping