The Short-Lived Promise of ’40 Acres and a Mule’

History.com ^ | November 09, 2022 | Nadra Kareem Nittle

[Secret Agent Man]

Lincoln real8ed that would actually put 3.9 million mules into involuntry servitude.

Plus the fact 3,9 million mules didn’t even exist in those numbers then.

[Brian Griffin]

“Real estate agents would tell these white homeowners that their houses were losing value by the day, so the homeowners would panic and sell.”

“Then, those agents would turn around and sell those homes at inflated prices to Black buyers who were eager to make a start in better neighborhoods. And all along, state regulators condoned this practice.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993993572/how-a-predatory-real-estate-practice-changed-the-face-of-compton

[Brian Griffin]

“In 1950, one-fifth of 1% of Compton’s entire population was non-white.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993993572/how-a-predatory-real-estate-practice-changed-the-face-of-compton

[gitmo]

I asked AI what is the average price of 40 acres of land in South Carolina. It said $9,187,040.00.

That’s a pretty good start.

[SaxxonWoods]

My GGGG grandfather was given a “League of Land” in Texas by Spain in 1823. I have a copy of the Spanish Land Deed signed by Stephen F. Austin and his brother, who were working with the Spanish Govt to settle Texas. A League of Land was thought to be around 4,000 acres. No one in the family knows what happened to it and the description in the deed doesn’t tie down where it was.

It does have colorful language describing Grandpa being taken to the land where he “shouted and threw stones” to show his possession and ownership of the land.

[PeaRidge]

Thanks. Excellent quote. Says it all.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I do believe that 25% of the men in Indiana were KKK members. 1920’s.
Correct me.

[Mr. Blond]

Those 40 acres were supposed to be in Liberia.

[Preachin']

Nadra Kareem Nittle is beating a dead horse. The media are trying to enrage the left into a frenzy, but they are simply opening the eyes of generationally left of center democrats and pushing them to the right.

This kind of stuff really is a gift to MAGA.

[maro]

Lincoln wanted to send the former slaves to Liberia. I have some doubts as to whether Lincoln would have been better for African Americans.

[Pikachu_Dad]

1. Why did we hold an election in the middle of a Civil War?
2. Why did Lincoln feel it necessary to run with a democrat VP?
3. Why did the democrats field McClellan - the top Union General as their Presidential candidate?
4: If not for some clear victories that year, the country was lost.

Gettysburg 1863
Sherman’s capture of Atlanta Georgia. Sep 1864
Battle of Cedar Creek Oct 1864 Sheridan

Lincoln replaced McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potamac Nov 5, 1862 !
By Aug 29 1864 he is running for President as leader of the rebel party !

[MacNaughton]

Without land of their own to work, the 3.9 million members of the formerly enslaved population struggled to control their own destiny after the Civil war ended. Many found themselves working white people’s land as sharecroppers or tenant farmers, a system that was only slightly better than slavery, given the meager wages and exploitation associated with it.

I got news for you. A large percentage of white southern males worked as sharecroppers well into the 20th century. My grandfather was 1 who ended up owning his own farm of 180 acres in "LA" (lower Alabama).

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

You are right; there were more white shatecroppers than black in the state of Louisiana, also more white people were lynched in Louisiana than blacks.

The largest mass lynching in US history occurred in New Orleans. 25 Italian men were grabbed by an angry mob and lynched they were blamed for the assassination of the chief of police