What does "40 acres and a mule" refer to?

Every race, color, creed, sex, religion got screwed by somebody else at some point in history. Let's just do what we can here can and now to be fair and equal to each other.

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Just goes to show the government was a crooked and unreliable bunch of sorry politicians 150 years ago ..............not much has changed.

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The reason ws that Generals in the American Army (even then) DO NOT have the authority to "give" spoils of war to individuals in spite of previous land grants and ownership. There was no legal means to supplant the legal owners of their "rights of ownership." This also allowed the Northern thieft of of property during the ten years of Northers occupation. These people were known as "carpetbaggers" because of the cheap bag made of carpet many carried.

It was also when a master gae an indentured servant when he finshed his servatude

If you talk to white farmers and business men that used to live in South Africa you may get a different input. Their treatment of blacks was bad just as in the USA but the whites haven't had happy days lately either.

Why were the free black men that already had land taken from their land by the north?

You are right: AGRARIAN REFORM FOR FORMER ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS African Americans suffered from a terrible economic hardship in the aftermath of the Civil War. The freedmen were offered hope close to the end of war, as they widely expected to legally get 40 acres of land and a mule after the official end of the military conflict. First it could have been just a rumor, but the phrase is definitely connected with the failed attempt of the agrarian reform for former slaves. General William T. Sherman issued a special order in 1865 and promised a piece of land to every black family. Unfortunately, less than a year after the order tens of thousands of black landholders were dispossessed and the land was returned to its previous owners.

Those senile old men are still unapologetic for torturing and murdering a whole generation of jewish people. Crime against humanity does not have a statut of limitations. When it comes to my people, they were not docile but never forgot their humanity despite centuries of slavery.We still refuse to stoop at the level of bigots.

As per usual black people getting shafted by "the man". It is amazing to me that blacks have been so docile and have put up with this outrageous treatment. Blacks have been by and large very forgiving of their slavemasters. Look at South Africa and the relative peace that that country have after that history. Contrast that with the Jewish response to the Nazis. They are still trying to prosecute 90+ year old senile men for their part in that atrocity.

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