Question

I NEED URGENT HELP
YOU WILL GET 50 POINTS IF YOU ANSWER CORRECTLY I SWEAR
I'M REALLY DESPERATE FOR AND ANSWER

this is the passage:

The man I belonged to told me it was best to stay with him. He said, "The bad white men was mad with the Negroes because they were free and they would kill you all for fun." He said, stay where we are living and we could get protection from our old masters.

He said, "The colored people could never protect themselves among the white people. So you had all better stay with the white people who raised you and make contracts with them to work by the year for one-fifth of all you make. And next year you can get one-third, and the next you maybe work for one-half you make. We have contracts for you all to sign, to work for one-twentieth you make from now until the crop is ended, and then next year you all can make another crop and get more of it."

Answer 1

The proposed contract is one-sided for two reasons:

I) It is presented under racist patronizing threats;

The white man tries to convince the black man to sign the contract by making him fear for his safety in a world where he is no longer a slave. The white man treats the black man in a patronizing way, that is, acting like the black man couldn't protect himself, and also trying to make the black man fear for his life.

II) The majority of the production will go to the owner of the farm instead of the worker.

Besides signing the contract for fear, the black man would work and get only a small part of his work's production. On the entire next year it was going to be one-twentieth part, and that would later increase slowly. It was a blatant exploitation.