WHAT IS FORTY ACRES AND A MULE?
DSOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule
Forty acres and a mule is part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a promise made by the United States government for agrarian reform to aid formerly enslaved black farmers.
Approved by President Abraham Lincoln, the field orders were written by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, and specifically allotted each family a plot of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort. The field orders followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Radical Republican abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens following disruptions to the institution of slavery provoked by the American Civil War.
Many freed people believed and were told by various political figures that they had a right to own the land they had long worked as slaves, and were eager to control their own property. Freed people widely expected to legally claim 40 acres of land (a quarter-quarter section) and a mule after the end of the war, long after proclamations such as Special Field Orders No. 15 and the Freedmen’s Bureau Act were explicitly reversed by Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson.
Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction during the war and for a brief period thereafter. However, federal and state policy during the Reconstruction era emphasized wage labor, not land ownership, for blacks. Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners. Several black communities did maintain control of their land, and some families obtained new land by homesteading.
Black land ownership increased markedly in Mississippi during the 19th century, particularly. The state had much undeveloped bottomland behind riverfront areas that had been cultivated before the war. Most blacks acquired land through private transactions, with ownership peaking at 15,000,000 acres (6,100,000 ha) in 1910, before an extended financial recession caused problems that resulted in the loss of property for many.
Blacks need to pay first since they started slavery in the new colonies.
Since the colonies only took in 5% is all African slaves that blacks in Africa sold, the other 95% recipients need to participate and that includes South America and the entire central Americas.
One million dollars, tax free, per individual, an economy class airplane ticket to any country that’ll have you and you give up your citizenship. Deal?
Danny Glover owes me money for all the movies during which I’ve had to endure his one-note Step-n-Fetchet repertoire.
South Africa and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.....There’s your 40 acres and a mule
It’s about time white people were paid for freeing slaves.
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Yeah, I can easily see the similarities in design...
You want reparations?
Fine.
One way ticket to your sub-Saharan turd world nation of your choice.
Except the last slaves weren't freed until the Indian wars had just about ended and Indians could no longer own slaves.
Give them a two years pay of local money when they step off the boat or plane into the foreign nation they wish to go to with no possible return to the USA.
Only those who leave the USA will get money.
Any reparations to be discussed are to be collected in Liberia, and are final.
[[and stressed that America needs to acknowledge the impact of slavery and discrimination.]]
Wha Wha What? Why is the very first time I’m ever hearing about this slavery business? You mean there were slaves? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me? My goodness- thank you Danny Glover for bringing this to my attention- I had no idea that black folks went through hell for many years- Had it not been for your comments on this- I would have never known- thank you!
I mean, it’s not like we’ve been constantly reminded of it for decades now or anything- Thanks for making us understand
Pssst- Danny- EVERY American practically, knows slavery happened and how bad it was- You’re not divulging anything we don’t know— only those living under a rock do not-
Most Americans acknowledge what happened- We hate it- You don’t need to pretend like we don’t anymore- Enough already- Many of our distant relatives were treated brutally too- and even indentured, or thrown in prisons as innocent people- or forced against their will to work for ‘the man’ too- We go on with our lives- Most of America is not racist anymore- period-
Stop trying to lay the guilt trip on those of us who had nothing to do with the issue- and stop pretending you are owed money for it- We didn’t get money for our ancestor’s horrible lives- now are we asking for reparations because we are NOT owed any!
So, who is it that will make the call as to who gets it and who pays for it? I had kin folks that paid for it in blood back in the 1860’s fighting out of New York against the south. How many folks would not be here today had their ancestors not been brought here due to wars, famine and disease?
Today in Georgia 40 acres would be $400,000 plus whatever 2 mules are worth. Although we are likely facing a Kiboto tractor instead. Pretty good scam.
Glover’s brain needs reparations.
I am amazed that anyone can be as stupid as he is.
In one of his Lethal Weapon movies, he had a scene where he played some bozo who wanted to emigrate TO South Africa. It must have been a challenge for him to act as someone so much more intelligent than he actually is.
White Christian men fought and died to free black slaves. Paid in full.
Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat! - M Ali