Feature "…[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 Use the passage to answer the question. What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?

Question

Feature  "…[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 Use the passage to answer the question. What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
1. sharecropping
2. black codes
3. grandfather clause
4. Ten Percent Plan

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The arrangement described in the passage is an example of **1. sharecropping**. This system involved tenant farmers (like Cooper Hughs Freedman and his wife) working on a landowner's farm (in this case, under the control of IG Bailey) and receiving a portion of the crops they helped cultivate as payment for their labor.