Forty Acres and a Mule | Reconstruction 360
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2019
- Historian Kate Masur explains the origins of 40 Acres and a Mule, a famous phrase that many have heard but may not fully understand. It originated in the early days of Reconstruction, when General Sherman issued Field Order 15, giving thousands of freed people abandoned land along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
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Thank you I had never heard of this.
Intellectually and Historically accurate. Facts. Not emotions.
and people say the devil isnt real
That would of been the game changer
@@JavaZombie I agree with the same opportunity, but disagree with the not related to slaves from that time. what happened to the families, did they just pause and not have offspring?? I think you're wrong.
@@JavaZombie so they didn't continue to reproduce? What exactly are you saying? Lol
And they know it,.that's why they took the land back. It should be given back to those people. Generations of wealth stolen
Things never change.
Where’s my 40 acres and a mule
@DrT 2000 2 points
1st the army and Lincoln did not have the authority to do such a thing.
2nd even if they did this would have to be applied to families descendant of slaves from this area and then apportioned to their descendants equally so conservatively the area we are talking about the value of raw land is 200,000 to 350,000 for ruffly 40 acres so we will say 250,000 plus 300 to 500 hundred for a mule 250,500 split lets say 50 ways between the descendants that would be about 5000 bucks a piece maybe even less based on the number of relatives.
Now a days it's 40 acres and a John deers tractor
@Candy H you got to be kidding me lmao
Is there a longer version to this video clip?
i like how they spin it at 2:00 truth is most of the land they are talking about was owned by wealthy families with a New York address so called absentee plantation owners like 70% in fact so if you can put that into context i bet you can guess why they didn't get to keep the land.
I don't know why the video doesn't say, but the idea of forty acres and a mule went as far as south Arkansas. My neighbor a black man, still lives on his 40 acres that was given to his family!
These wealthy farmers (just saying) were democrats. Sherman sided with Abraham lincoln and the republicans. Its a major reason he was assassinated. Look up the original story. It was written by a black writer.
SHERMAN BURNT GEORGIA
I guess we just have to deal with it.
God alone has the right to take life and condemn a soul.
So if a plantation has 80,000 acres and only one thousand slaves that's forty thousand acres plus . Where is the change my ancestors are do reparations for the loss of property 80000 Acres gone in North Carolina alone just one family owning that land and running it since the 1600 since the revolution fighting in the revolution. Where's my 40K Acres for my descendants. We fought for that land the king granted it to my ancestors. 1000 slaves at 40 acres each. Where's my family's land they built from wilderness
King?you didnt watch the video
will friar - The revolution occurred between 1773-1778, and the war was between the British Monarchy and settler's of America (their descendants). The British lost and the United States resulted. The first constitution stated slavery needed to be expelled and it began, occurring slowly from North to South over the years. However the big/powerful plantation's in the South stayed reluctant. Also, Southerner's didn't want a big federal government so the civil war involved two issues. Anyway, the North won and slavery was abolished.
There was no King to make a promise. That would have had to get passed by Congress. The idea for reparations came from a Northern war general that didn't have the power to make such a promise. It ultimately did not happen because Lincoln was murdered and it never even got to congress...... The main profiteer's were plantation owners and African tribe's that had warred with others and sold the "loser's" as slaves, around the world..... I think that 100's of thousands of people fighting and dying in a war are the reparation's. Something rarely even acknowledged. The country was in shambles after, entirely broke, and most people suffered from the consequences. That's a lot to ignore.
@@amyjoyce2301 they we ould throw away this country for 40 acres. When they could work and buy it today just as was promised to them then. Nobody was giving them 40 acres. They had to work it until they could buy it
@@GenerationalDysfunction I just learned that today actually. Thanks for reminding me. What gets me is people trying to simplify history and not recognizing that issues are complicated. It's what happens when objective thinking, civics, and history aren't stressed in school. Peace.
@@GenerationalDysfunction do you know the price of 40 acres today compared to back then?
Typical Government to give something that didn't belong to them!
It don’t belong to you either idiot
@@jameshill5554 did I say it belonged to me...No!
@@tonyhopkins6705 ok just needed clarification, because It don’t belong to no one! Only the creator.. That’s why I don’t understand why people rob , kill, steal, and destroy about something you can never take with you!!! I try to pick up the things I can take with me!! Everything else is superficial!!!
"Indian givers" Why is this not surprising.
So why not issue that land now..especially with all this forest land in America😞smh!
So I had to work my ass off to buy my land
Is their no such thing as seven acres and a mule
UFO is here to set things right.
Whatever give them Forty Acres and a tractor
#ADOS
To be fair this would likely not have resulted in generational wealth, separating black people who couldn't read/write wouldn't exactly make it easy for them to sell food to gain wealth, more likely the us would've taken advantage of them constantly and never given them any rights
Grant and Sherman tried their darndest but those Confederates should have been locked up.
even today in 2020 the confederates are still raising hell, nothing has changed
It wasn’t the confederates, it was an order by president Johnson, a democrat who nullified Sherman’s orders.
Richard Rodriguez you don’t know your history, obviously. There are no confederates but there are democrats. They started the kkk, they took back the land, they did the trail of tears, they did Jim Crow, and the republicans fought them every step of the way.
Same old game plan,..yea old bait and switch,..all that land should be given back to those people. Screwed out generations of wealth. But according to them we all equal
Funny that Northwestern, a private university, started by land speculators, promotes this...Look up Richard T. Ely and how much land he ‘owned’ in Wisconsin. Northwestern teaches how to extract rent (unearned income) from actual labor! This is gaslighting on the extreme end.
Every American historian across the collegiate level knows this story. This has nothing to do with gaslighting. Do better.
@@kingtchalla2289It’s okay, most people are unable to argue about the reality of economic history.
I'm Native American, our story is never told Accurately.
See...🤔🤔🤔this is what happened to our
generational wealth...A vicious Renege.
Work fare not welfare
Fade into black 2045. The globe will be a plethora of dark hues. Mixing mixing mixing
What she is not telling us is the occupying forces didn't have the authority to give that land away, it belonged to the government at that point. Such a decree would have had to go before Congress and got approval. Since the slaves were brought here against their will they should have been given appropriate reparations at that time or given the chance to go back to their homeland. Now it will be very difficult to pass any law regarding reparations because there isn't clear proof of who is eligible. Just because you are black dosen't mean you're eligible, some blacks here today do not have ties to the slave trade neither do most whites so I don't see how the government could appropriately pass such a bill. Heck I know a few black people that have white great grandparents and I even have a black great great grandfather from some island in Africa, my family doesn't talk about that too much.
So did all the land stolen from the Indians go before congress? Land grabs, for whites only,..there should be modern day land grabs for minorities only. Boy you W folks are a piece of work