"...[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 on half of the cotton and one thrid 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.."

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 on half of the cotton and one thrid 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, grandfather clause
B, sharecropping
C, black codes

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The arrangement agreed to in this contract is **B, sharecropping**. Sharecropping involves a system where tenants (in this case, Cooper Hughs Freedman and his wife) work a portion of land owned by someone else (IG Bailey) and in return, they receive a share of the crops produced (half of the cotton and one-third of the corn and fodder). This practice was common in the South after the Civil War, particularly in the context of agricultural work.