Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16th,...
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40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee, founded in 1979. The company name is a reference to the phrase most often used to...
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Garrison Frazier (category Copied and pasted articles and sections from August 2021)
"Forty acres and a mule" meeting. Frazier's intervention helped to motivate General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 or the "Forty acres and a mule"...
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Forty Acres may be: 40 Acres (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call Forty acres and a mule, a term for compensation that was supposedly to be awarded...
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(1940) 6#3 pp: 303-330. in JSTOR Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), pp. 86–87. Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), p. 81, 93. Paul W. Gates, "Federal...
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their lands. Although mules are not mentioned in the orders, they were a main source for the expression "forty acres and a mule." A historical marker commemorating...
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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...
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state would have to take a loyalty oath, not just ten percent. Lincoln later pocket-vetoed this new bill. Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Bureau Treatment...
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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...
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Freedmen's Bureau (redirect from The Bureau Of Refugees Freedmen And Abandoned Lands)
Freedmen's Savings Bank Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Cemetery Chalmette, Louisiana Freedmen's Schools McHatton Home Colony For access and inquires about the...
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Sojourner Truth (section "Ain't I a Woman?")
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...
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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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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...
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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...
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acres (1.6 ha) of pasture. In What's Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton used the phrase to summarise his own distributist opinions. "Forty acres and...
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advised him to go for a third term and he almost did so, but on December 15, 1875, the House, by a sweeping 233–18 vote, passed a resolution declaring...
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and Johnson's would-be attacker became drunk instead of killing the vice president. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the end of a...
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reconstruction states like South Carolina and Tennessee. In the wake of the Civil War, the civil rights of former slaves was a hotly debated issue in the Union...
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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...
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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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Coushatta massacre (category Riots and civil disorder during the Reconstruction Era)
both his arms. List of massacres in Louisiana Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction", Humanities, January/February...
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Dapper Dan (designer) (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
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...
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Rutherford B. Hayes (redirect from 19th U.S.A. President)
reputation in the Republican Party as a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction. He served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio...
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.)
the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on...
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This Land (song) (section Background and production)
other songs and aspects of American culture. One of the opening lines, "Fifty acres and Model A", reflect the promise of forty acres and a mule to be given...
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Abraham Lincoln (redirect from A. Lincoln)
cases into the first group and commuted their sentences. In the second group were forty cases. One he commuted for becoming a state's witness. Sibley dismissed...
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Gone with the Wind (film) (category Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance)
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...
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Reconstruction era (redirect from Reconstruction and The Changing South)
1875, pp. 106–107. Alexander, Danielle (January–February 2004). "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction". Humanities. 25 (1). Archived...
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William Tecumseh Sherman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the claim that the Union government had promised freed slaves "forty acres and a mule", were revoked later that year by President Johnson. Toward the...
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away the land owned by whites, giving it to former slaves. (See Forty acres and a mule.) Men claiming to represent the government confiscate the material...
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