Read this excerpt from an 1882 contract, and then answer the question. From whose point of view is this contract written? [They] must sow & plow in oats and haul them to the crib, but must have no part of them. Nothing to be sold from their crops... until my rent is all paid, and all amounts they a land owner's o a sharecropper's owe me... are paid in full. an enslaved person's -"A Sharecrop Contract" (1882) a merchant's