Where And When Was The Sharecropping Contract Written?

Where And When Was The Sharecropping Contract Written? This 1867 contract between landowner Isham G. Bailey in Marshall County, Mississippi, and two freedmen stipulates different arrangements for each man’s family. When was sharecropping written? On January 5, 1866, a sharecropping contract was made between W. R. Bath, a white land owner, and Ned Littlepage, a