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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04522.09 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Sharecropper's contract between Isham Bailey and freedman Alie Bailey |
| Date | 1 January 1867 |
| Author | Bailey, Isham G. (fl. 1867) |
| Document Type | Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Alie Bailey is to receive half of the corn, cotton, and fodder cultivated in return for providing all the work necessary to keep up the farm, assisting in putting up fences, and cultivating forty acres of cotton and corn. Amongst other things, Isham Bailey is responsible for providing farming tools, furnishing two mules and forage for the mules, and land sufficient to cultivate six hundred pounds of meat. With three 2-cent revenue stamps. |
| Subjects | Reconstruction Freemen Labor Contract Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Cotton Diet and Nutrition Land Transaction African American History |
| People | Bailey, Isham G. (fl. 1867) |
| Place written | Marshall County, Mississippi |
| Theme | Agriculture; African Americans; Reconstruction |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |