Read the excerpts from an 1879 contract between

a freedman named Dawson and a plantation

called Solid South. Then, answer the question.

According to this contract, who is responsible for

maintaining the farm property?

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Solid South

Dawson

enslaved persons

general laborers

Dawnson

Explanation:

According to the excerpt of the contract between the Dawnson and the plantation of the solid state. It states that;

"The said Dawson is to cultivate the said land in a proper manner, under the general superintendence of the said Solid South, or his agent or manager, and is to surrender to said lessor peaceable possession of said leased premises at the expiration of this lease without notice to quit. All ditches, turn-rows, bridges, fences, etc. on said land shall be kept in proper condition by said Dawson, or at his expense."

From the excerpt above, it can be seen that Dawnson is responsible for maintaining the farm property as all the ditches, turn-rows, bridges, and fences etc on the farm land is to be kept in proper condition by Dawnson, or at his expense.

Dawson

Explanation:

The freed men where entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining the land which they would farm in a sharecropping contract as the one entered by Dawson and the solid south plantation in 1879.

After the widespread violence of the civil war most Freed/former slaves entered into different kinds of sharecropping contracts/arrangements in which they were to lease the land and cultivate the land and in return pay as compensation to the landlords who were former slave masters a portion of their produce. this kind of contract was seen as a different kind of slavery.

From the excerpts from an 1879 contract between Dawson and solid south Dawson is responsible for maintaining the farm property.