Land: Giving Rise to the Famous Phrase 40 Acres & a Mule 

This helped a lot for my homework.

This is 2023 almost 2024 and we black people gotta start helping and supporting each other. I sure would like to see this happen during my lifetime. We're so powerful we can do it!!!

I so appreciate these lessons in our history. Thank you so much 💓

i get so heated hearing this

Sherman gave this order, General Order #15, months before the end of the war, the US didn't own the land Sherman was giving away, it was simply land conquered by Sherman. The Federal Government needed to ensure that the Confederates would not come back to try to retrieve their land, so that the Union would remain in control of the area. The Union Army was also in a dilemma about what to do with the ever-increasing numbers of Blacks who were coming into the Union camps to be cared for. Giving them this land would keep the contrabands out of the Union camps, and relieve the military of the burden of feeding and housing them. The mule didn't come in until months later, when the US Army had a surplus of mules that were idle and unused. Sherman, who was in charge of the area under Martial Law, thought it would be economical for the army to loan (not give) the mules to black farmers, relieving the military of the cost of care of these mules, but retaining their rights to retrieve them whenever necessary. It was decided by US President Andrew Johnson that this order was illegal and unenforceable, and the land was returned to its original owners. The Freedman's Bureau brokered deals with some of the owners and offered many of these Blacks the opportunity to remain on this land as paid workers or as share-croppers. The Freedman's Bureau did not 'give' land to the freed Blacks, the land was to be leased by the freed Blacks, with the intent of buying it. They would be supplied with farm tools, seeds, and a pair of mules to work the land, and must pay their leases and debts when the crops came in and were sold. You had the Federal Government, the Military, and the Freedman's Bureau, all with differing ideas and goals, each writing their own rules as they went along, in conflict with each other, and investors and abolitionists all advertising their own goals and ideas as if they were legal precedent. It was a complicated, confusing and repeatedly reversing process, by any stretch of the imagination, and clearly none of it fair to anybody involved.

“40 acres and a mule mean they worked us off the land” Mozzy

I wish my neighbor didn't steel my candy bar when I was 12. Reparations now

Reparations for ADOS

Keep your apology. I want that land.👍🏽

Reparations now!

We cannot have equity & equality in the present until we address the inequalities of our history.

The country "chose not to do it". What will we get from HR40?

No restitution …. An “apology” ….

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Sounds like a false promise made by a bunch of folks who were scared by the newly freed folks they exploited? I don't know but they should have given those people that land.

While the government busy apologize to African American While quickly compensating other indigenous groups, not fair or right.

Who are the mule?

Minus the fact that it was a military order and not something done by Congress/civilian government.

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*#B1-#ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN-#CUTTHECHECK-#REPARATIONS #DONTVOTEBLUEorRED* "We have No friends"- Dr.John Henrik Clarke

They could have at least given them, my ancestors, half the land they worked for!!? Like God damn greedy af

2023 Wish I Had 40 Acres & SUV Land Rover Defender 110 V8. I Can Dream, Can't I? (smile)

Why are we still talking we all need to know this we need to take back what’s they Got from just like they took it from us what we need to take it back👀 what’s do you think black brothers sisters real talk 🔥👁✊🏿🛸👌🏾💯💪🏾 Let’s all come together as one my brothers and sister

Some of this video was removed... I see MseeF in the comments section, providing a timestamp, but the video no longer goes that far... GOOGLE! What the hell did you remove? If I have to, and I can do the research, and if I find the video and there is more than what is provided, I'll throw you under the bus and provide the rest of the video to Twitter.

Reparations God is real. And So is his judgment day. Where's our Reparations🦶🏿🦶🏿

Thats 1,750,000 sq ft

Mules don't reproduce a horse or donkey would be better.

Pass a bill that does nothing , I can study at home 🤣

We got lied to

Every word out of their mouth is a lie when you see them coming run the other way to all mankind

They got Juneteenth and platitudes instead 🤦🏼‍♂️

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The End..

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Slavery was wrong then and now. Wish folks cared about today's slaves more.

Thanks Johnson smh

40 acres and a mule? A piano a guitar?

We should take care of Native Americans first

Slavery was wrong.. General Sherman had no legal right to declare his 40 acres and a mule as he was a general , not a dictator. Congress never passed the 40 acres and a mule. Generals cannot make law. It was a great idea however it was not law.

The us was tring to keep the county united. Seems no other choice. How can you give any citizen anothers land and expect peace. All should have gone west and made there own claim like others with nothing did. Shouldn't depend on government for anything they always over promise and under deliver

Wonder if this pertains to all with African DNA

40 acres of Native American land. Did black folks care that they were being offered land that belonged to other indigenous people? And a mule. What would they do? Farm land they were unfamiliar with? With an animal they were unfamiliar with? Try to grow cotton and tobacco in Arizona? Neither of which is food. Would they fence off the property? Maybe trade farming skills and labor with locals in exchange for free housing. Occupying stolen land and exchanging free labor for housing.

PROPERTY CANT OWN PROPERTY

🙄 oh lord! Not this again

You all do know that among the so many things you’re terrible at, farming is one of those things, yeah?

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