Coloni, or small farmers, turned their land over to nobles in return for
protection from invaders.
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The surrender terms were generous. The average private Confederate soldier turned in his rifle and accroutements, signed a parole paper, was issued 3 days worth of rations (food) and told to return home. Officers were allowed to keep their horses and sidearms. They too were allowed to return home.
When the union troops were in an area they often had the freed slaves come to them for protection and to help. At one point slaves came to one unit and the confederate officer demanded the return of the slaves from the union commander. The union commander told the Confederate that the slaves were contraband. By declaring them contraband he didn't have to return the slaves. After that event they called themselves "contraband."
Because he was a segregationist, and supported a "return to Africa" by African-Americans.
they sent out slaves and rum in return for sugar spices and fur
Harding and Coolidge both based their foreign policy on a return to isolationism.