Unless it was common back then to loot a neighbor's farm field at midnight, that was a terrible choice of farm equipment, much more trouble than it was worth.
Who were the natives and how did the Native Africans become
a people used by the newcomers to do a lot of the manual labor
both male and female. And what happened in the mid 1800s? A
civil war was fought to free the Africans from slavery.
History is out there for events that changed this land. It's still
changing as time moves on. Look at the new comers that are
arriving in large numbers today. At the rate they are arriving
they will be making changes to how this land will be governed.