Problem
Crop Lien and Sharecropper contract:
(Both of these are for land owned by A.T. Mial)
Do you think everyone reading a crop lien would understand what they were signing? Why/why not?
What are some of the provisions that keep farmers in debt because of the crop lien? How do you think this affected the generational accumulation of wealth?
What are some of the provisions in the sharecropper contract that are about controlling the behavior of the sharecropper?
Both Powell and Medlin sign with an X, indicating they are illiterate. Why do you think Medlin had a crop lien and Powell a sharecropping contract? Explain.