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in 1874 was as follows: The farmer purchased an old mule on credit and rented land on shares, or for so many bales of cotton; any old tools were used; corn, bacon, and other supplies were bought on credit, and a lien given on the crop; a month later, corn and cotton were planted on soil not well broken up; the negro
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to put on other people's land; by turns the farmer planted and fished, ploughed and hunted, hoed and frolicked, or went to
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Nigger work hard all de year, White man tote de money.
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There can be no doubt that the negroes first steal one another's share of the crop, and next the planter's, by way of general redress. [2083] Crop stealing was usually done at night. Stolen cotton, corn, pork, etc., was carried to the doggeries kept on the outskirts of the plantation by low white men, and there exchanged for bad whiskey, tobacco, and cheap stuff of various kinds. These doggeries were called
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and their proprietors often became rich.[2084] So serious did the theft of crops become, that the legislature passed a