Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh...

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Forty Acres may be: 40 Acres (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call 40 Acres (film), a 2024 Canadian thriller film Forty acres and a mule, a term...

600 km2) in coastal Georgia and South Carolina to 40,000 freed slaves in forty-acre plots, this order was intended to provide for the thousands of escaped...

in farming, leading to the phrase "forty acres and a mule". The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the government and President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to...

pro-worker, decentralized views promoted by Dorothy Day. "Forty acres and a mule", referring to a promised reallocation of land to formerly-enslaved peoples...

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a more aggressive federal role in reshaping the postwar South. Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Bureau Treatment of slaves in the United States Corbett...

people (summarized as the promise of "forty acres and a mule"). She continued to fight on behalf of women and African Americans until her death. As her...

1971): 245–54. Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule. (1978). Pearson, Reggie L. "'There Are Many Sick, Feeble, and Suffering Freedmen': the Freedmen's...

Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth. However...

robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as a restitution...

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losing hundreds of acres in legal disputes. In 1816, the family moved to Indiana, where land titles were more reliable. They settled on a forested plot in...

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newspaper called Forty Acres and a Mule, as he initially wanted to become a writer. During this time he went through a life-style change and became a vegetarian...

Green–Meldrim House, and their discussion directly led to Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, which included the famous Forty acres and a mule land allotment...

is reflected in a brief scene in which Mammy fends off a leering freedman: a politician can be heard offering forty acres and a mule to the emancipated...

settlers and free up real estate on the American frontier. Desert Land Act Homestead National Historical Park Land Act of 1804 Forty acres and a mule, proposal...

prophet", NYU Press, New York, 2008. Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership. Louisiana State University Press...

Republican Party and held their own convention. The 1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform...

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1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain...

McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote. For the election, the Republican Party and some Democrats...

During the Civil War and Reconstruction. ISBN 978-0-8232-1894-3. Retrieved July 5, 2010. Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of...

Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876...