sentences:  Daniels used the land to attempt a number of utopian and scientific farming schemes, including a school for freedmen.During the 1880s he and his wife were involved in Albert Kimsey Owen's utopian socialist "Topolobampo" colony in Sinaloa, Mexico, though it is unclear whether they actually attempted to settle there.During his time in Virginia, Daniels was actively involved in the politics of the Reconstruction South.