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To: NRx

We had a war - We gave slaves 40 acres and a mule.

THEY HAD REPARATIONS.

To say otherwise is a lie.


3 posted on 04/24/2016 8:42:15 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

My father’s side of the family emigrated from Germany in 1846 and settled in Indiana.They got here just in time to fight in the civil war.So I don’t want to hear any reparations talk,we already paid the price in blood.


6 posted on 04/24/2016 8:50:18 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Skywise

“We had a war - We gave slaves 40 acres and a mule.

THEY HAD REPARATIONS.”

No. The vast majority received nothing except their freedom. Most all war time orders on this were rescinded, and only a few were able to keep the land given to them by the Union Army after the war.


11 posted on 04/24/2016 9:11:03 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: sauropod

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23 posted on 04/25/2016 5:39:33 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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