We Trust Forrest

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Nathan Bedford Forrest worked with other sharecrop owners of land to supply their collaborative former slave farmers with shelter and a measured parcel of land, as well as all the inputs like grains, fertilizer, and farm implements essential to growing crops. Southern farmers who owned the plantations specified the exact plants to be grown and monitored the workers who farmed on the plantations. In return, the sharecroppers assisted on the plantations, right from the planting of the seed to the harvesting of mature fruits. After harvesting, all of the produce was handed over to the farm owner, who traded it for money. After taking away the money spent on farm inputs which he had funded from his purse, the farmer divides the rest of the gains and gives them to sharecroppers. The latter, most times, gets a range of 1/3 to one-half of the net gains made.