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Wade Hampton III Signed Sharecroppers' Agreement for 150 Acres on His Walnut Ridge Plantation. ...
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Wade Hampton III Signed Sharecroppers' Agreement for 150 Acres on His Walnut Ridge Plantation. Two pages of a bifolium, 8" x 12.5"; Issaquena County, Mississippi; April 4, 1871. An agreement between former Confederate General Wade Hampton and twenty-one individuals for the use of 150 acres on his Walnut Ridge Plantation. The rent is listed as ten dollars per acre and additional conditions stipulate that the renters must build split rail fences where indicated by Hampton. It further states: "To secure the prompt and certain payment of the rent herein specified and the faithful performance of all the above stipulations and of any and all advances that may be made by said Hampton for the purchase of mules or horses and for other supplies and other necessaries for cultivation of said land under the act of the Mississippi legislature entitled 'an act for the encouragement of agriculture' approved February 18th 1867, we hereby bargain sell, mortgage and convey to the said Hampton or his assigns the entire crop of corn and cotton that may be raised on said lands during the continuance of this lease, and also the mules, cattle, horses, hogs, wagons, gearing, and farming implements that we now have or may have or use on said plantation during the lease." Signed, "Wade Hampton" at the conclusion. The twenty-one sharecroppers have signed with their mark.After the end of the war, Hampton went to Mississippi to try to regain his financial footing. Although the Hampton family was firmly established in South Carolina, Wade Hampton II (his father) had purchased the Walnut Ridge plantation sometime in the 1820s. Wade Hampton III had lost his fortune during the war. During the eight years he lived in Mississippi, he turned to sharecropping as a means of generating income.
Although we cannot say with certainty that the sharecroppers signing this agreement are recently emancipated slaves, it is most likely that they were. After the end of the war, the overwhelming majority of sharecroppers were Black. The names listed with their marks include: Ema Page, George Brown, Mack Grant, Rebeca Brown, Hana Grant, William Foster, Hood Thompson, Salley Roe, Judey Page, Dafnee Foster, and Rebeca Williams. A Justice of the Peace signs below attesting that they have all appeared before him and signed, sealed, and delivered the deed. With filing dockets on the verso.
Condition: Creased along folds. Toning, with moderate foxing and offsetting. A few stray stains of ink.
Provenance: From the Private Collection of a Mississippi Gentleman.
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2023 September 21 Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction #6272 (go to Auction Home page)
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