Question

"...[the] Said Cooper hughs Freedman with his wife are to work on said farm And to cultivate 40 acres in corn and 20 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 same and 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 services. One half of cotton and 1/3 of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm and said year 1867 and the said IG Bailey party for the first part agrees and binds himself to the furnished necessity mules and farming implements to cultivate said crop" Use To answer the question, what kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract? Sharecropping. Black codes. grandfather claws. or 10% plan

Answer 1

The arrangement agreed to in this contract is sharecropping. The agreement specifies that the Coopers are to work on the farm, cultivate crops, maintain fences, and do other necessary work, in exchange for receiving a portion of the crops they help to raise. This was a common arrangement in the post-Civil War South, where newly freed African Americans often entered into sharecropping agreements with landowners in order to work the land and make a living.