Some ex-slaves were awarded land, but had no tools to farm it. Therefore, they had to turn to furnishing merchants, who would give the ex-slaves farm animals, tools, and seeds. ... These people turned to sharecropping, through which they would receive a piece of land to farm, and all the tools to farm the land. ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Andover, healthy farm animals perish for no apparent reason, families die from smallpox, diabolical and inhumane crimes are committed, and other natural events that the Puritan society considered to be supernatural. ...

• Word Count: 1349
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate