Sharecropping contract between Willis P. Bocock and several freedmen who will be working a year on his Waldwick Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama.
Bocock will furnish the land and stock, and he will advance his employees provisions each week; the freedmen will pay for their own expenses and receive one-third of the all the crops. A provision at the end of the contract (which is in a different handwriting) allows the freedmen to receive a large...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1974 |
| Summary: | Bocock will furnish the land and stock, and he will advance his employees provisions each week; the freedmen will pay for their own expenses and receive one-third of the all the crops. A provision at the end of the contract (which is in a different handwriting) allows the freedmen to receive a larger share of the crops if there is an excess. In exchange for this, however, they must agree "to do for our employer and his family outside of plantation work, any work he may call on us to do not in a busy time of the crop." |
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