ycxn3 Wrote:
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> Not life. Wrote:
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> > Niggers were given reparations once and
> squandered
> > it
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> Nice historical rewrite. They did 't squander it.
> Most never got any land. Most of those who did
> had the land taken from them after the Civil War
> and returned to the former owners.
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> Longer version is during the Civil War Union
> commanders along the south Atlantic coast had
> large numbers of escaped slaves on their hands.
> Nearby coastal plantations had been abandoned by
> their Confederate owners. The generals seized the
> land, resettled the escaped slaves on it,
> allotting to each person about 40 acres. The
> blacks started working the land and had begun to
> develop thriving communities. After the War
> President Johnson reversed the action and ordered
> that the land be restored to its former owners. A
> few of the blacks were able to make arrangements
> to purchase their allotment. The rest were
> evicted, ironically by Union troops.
>
> In much of the South land allocation never took
> place. Instead the Government arranged for the
> Freedman to be hired out at fixed wages.
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