Complex sentence: Some years later, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest contracted with local officials to establish a penal farm on the island to raise corn and the cotton fields offering to pay the Shelby County 10 cents a day for each worker.
Split into simpler sentences: Some years later, Nathan Bedford Forrest contracted with local officials to establish a penal farm on the island to raise corn and the cotton. Forrest offered to pay Shelby County 10 cents a day for each worker.