<span>Melodrama is a genre of theater that is often defined as works that have a very serious tone to them and are made more interesting or entertaining because they are presented with grand staging and superfluous dialogue.</span>
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Colonial farmers grew a wide variety of crops depending on where they lived. Popular crops included wheat, corn, barley, oats, tobacco, and rice. The first settlers didn't own slaves, but, by the early 1700s, it was the slaves who worked the fields of large plantations.