I distinctly remember “40 acres and a mule” as payouts. Did they forget?
Never passed Congress.
Doesn’t matter: the Constitution forbids working corruptions of blood and that’s what has to happen for anyone today to have any financial liability for slavery.
If they can find an actual living freedman to sue his former master, also still living, then they can have at it.
They had to actually fight for the Inion to get that I believe.