The arrangement described in the contract is best identified as sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system where tenants (often freedmen after the Civil War) would work on land owned by someone else (the landowner) and share a portion of the crops produced with the owner in exchange for the use of the land, tools, and supplies. In this case, Cooper Hughs and his wife are set to work on the farm and will receive a portion of the crops (one-half of the cotton and one-third of the corn) as payment for their labor.
What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
Contract, Marshall County,
Mississippi, 1867
". (Ine said Cooper Hughs Freedmen with his wife.. cre to work: on said
form end to cultivate forly acres in corn and venty ores n cotton, to assist
in puffir The lenses on said lemn gose c cel, ene fo keep them so, cne
to do el other work on sed lerm necessery to se done fo keep the some in
Good ofeel, and to raise a good clop, one lo be under the conifol and
directions of said ks 8al av. and to recoive for the r seid sorvices 112 o1 tho
collon and I 3 of the com and foddet fesed by them on seid torm in sid
year 186/.. And the said IG Baley party of the first part, agrees and binds
himself to furnish necessary Mules and laming impemenis to cu livale sid
(1 point)
O grandfather clause
O ten percent plan
O black codes
O sharecropping
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