Labor contract between John Thomas, Henry Spear, Charles Ivans, Jerry Foster, Martha Foster, Delia Foster, Nick[?] Page, Harris Page, Harris Miller[?], Neil Bassell, Joe Mastin, and Alonzo G. Harris, February 10, 1868
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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands reviewed labor contract between landowners and Montgomery County, Alabama freedmen. This record has been transcribed as follows: CONTRACT FOR LABOR State of Alabama County of Montgomery Between John Thomas, and the undersigned colored laborers, Witnesseth, that I, John Thomas, obligate myself to give the undersigned colored laborers, one half of every Saturday as a day of rest from Labor and one third of the cotton; one third 1/3 of the corn; one third 1/3 of the fodder; and one third 1/3 of all other produced raised on my plantation; and to furnish said laborers with everything necessary to make a crop and [blank] pounds of good pork or bacon; and [blank] of corn meal, each, per week, until the first day of January, 1869. For and in consideration of the above, We, the undersigned colored laborers, obligate ourselves to labor faithfully for John Thomas each day, from sunrise until sunset, Sunday excepted, until the first day of January, 1869, working according to, and obeying all reasonable orders given by the employer or his agent. We also obligate ourselves to pay thirty cents per day *if lost by sickness and 50 cents (50) if voluntarily lost by us without consent*, for all time lost by us, and to observed and be governed by the general rules and regulations of the plantation. Signed at Montgomery Ala., the tenth day of February, 1868. Should any one voluntarily leave the plantation for a period longer than three...
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