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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smallaxe, post: 4430234, member: 13430&quot;][USER=72019]@eastcoaster[/USER] - Where did it mention &quot;horses and Africans&quot;? I didn&#039;t see anything like that in the document.</p><p>I know that old deeds and such are collectible, but my impression is that folks like the ones with the nice script, seals, and official doodadery on them. And being on velum is good too.</p><p>I imagine that making agreements to rent farmland for a share of the crop has been going on for many centuries. And I think it still goes on, although not like the image we have of sharecropping of old. My great uncle was a sharecropper (the old fashioned kind) in the 1930&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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