I guess that's because it kind of made me angry how they treated the accused.

I watched a documentary on it years ago, and one researcher found out that it may have had something to do with the way they stored their grain. It would mold or ferment "I forget which" and it would produce some sort of drug similar to LSD.

That's something that will probably never be told in schools because they are too busy trying to make our founding fathers look evil.