Question

Source 1: Excerpt from Senate Report 693, 46th Congress, 2nd Session (1880).

Answer 1

What the other person said

Answer 2

The former slave owner suggested a contract to the freedman. Once the slaves were freed many white people were angry and intended to murder or harm colored people. It would be extremely difficult for colored people to find housing let alone a job. He suggested the contract as an offer of protection, and the bare necessities to survive. In return the freedman would work very hard for unfair wages.