No, the reparations were not given. The “40 acres and a mule” were referring to the land that General Sherman consfiscated (stolen) on his ‘March to the Sea’ and was labeled “Special Field Orders No. 15, which was approved by President Lincoln, and awarded agrarian land that was confiscated from former slave owners and awarded to Black Farmers. This was done more for appeasement and confiscation in the reconstruction to the south, and was considered an illegal Executive Order by many, if not outright theft. It never applied to the whole US and it was never voted on or adjudicated in the courts. In fact, if you want to see a similar situation, look at the theft of farmland from White Farmers in South Africa. It was nothing more than theft of Southern lands, as the ‘spoils of war’, and never decided in the courts. Of course, everyone has a different perspective on history, as some would say the ‘Southern lands’ were liberated from white ownership.
There were significant sections of land that were distributed. However, carpet baggers and some Southerners she did most of them out of their apportionments