5. What measure taken by the white landowners, and what threat made by the Wallaces, make Mr. Avery, Mr. Lanier, and others withdraw from the plan to shop in Vicksburg?

Mr. Granger and Mr. Montier have asked their tenant farmers for sixty rather than fifty percent of their cotton and has threatened to kick those who shop in Vicksburg off their land. The Wallaces have threatened to get the sheriff to put those who owe debts on the chain gang.