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Jun 15, 2024 · 40 Acres and A Mule -- The History of Reparations: Reconstruction after the Civil War (1865 -1877) This presentation was given at the Juneteenth Seminars sponsored by the Prince George's...
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Jun 24, 2024 · The promise of "40 acres and a mule", is often thought of as a broken one. But it turns out, some freed people actually received land as reparations after the Civil War.
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Jun 19, 2024 · After the Civil War, the federal government’s pledge of 40 acres and a mule to the formerly enslaved has been known as a broken promise. But a new report reveals that not only did the...
Jun 13, 2024 · We ultimately created at least 100 family trees and identified 41 living descendants, several of whom April and I and Reveal’s Nadia Hamdan interviewed for this project. Some of them had no idea their ancestors had received land as part of 40 Acres and a Mule.
Jun 28, 2024 · A new podcast series from Reveal revisits the history of 40 Acres and a Mule: the land grants given to recently freed slaves after the Civil War that were later taken away. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the stories of those freed men and women who lost their land, their present descendants, and the Americans who own and live on the land today.
5 days ago · #ISUPK Virginia History Class: The Truth About Those 40 Acres And That Mule
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Jun 13, 2024 · 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the...