Land: Giving Rise to the Famous Phrase 40 Acres & a Mule
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2020
- As the Union declared victory over the Confederacy, post-Civil War life seemed to be off to a good start for freed slaves. William Tecumseh Sherman, a former Union general, sat with 20 black ministers to develop a plan to remedy the harsh treatment of black people.
The phrase “40 acres and a mule” - a promise to former slaves - would be hatched from this meeting. Unfortunately, President Andrew Johnson would renege on this promise and many families never saw this promise come to fruition. While land ownership would have been a step in the right direction, negotiations robbed black families of an opportunity to invest in an economic future with.
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Evelynn Hammonds of Harvard University and Farah Griffin of Columbia University, we uncover the turbulent history of land ownership and the challenges black people faced in America.
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This helped a lot for my homework.
Very
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.
Great channel! 10/10
“40 acres and a mule mean they worked us off the land” Mozzy
Liberia exists
I wish my neighbor didn't steel my candy bar when I was 12. Reparations now
Where can I support your work? Do you have a patreon?
Reparations for ADOS
Liberia exists you uneducated simp
@@kingdc7017 The only uneducated one is you. Also, you're using the term simp incorrectly.
All in favor " say I "
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.
Lincoln’s early death made it Andrew Jackson’s fault, signed a deal with southern democrats during reconstruction that stopped the 40 acres
No restitution …. An “apology” ….
We cannot have equity & equality in the present until we address the inequalities of our history.
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.
The country "chose not to do it".
What will we get from HR40?
40 acres and a Tesla
Liberia literally exists
@@kingdc7017 Means nothing, when Liberia has been systematically pillaged by the West ever since its foundation.
@@hakeemsd70m Thats factually a demonstrable LIE. The only westerners who moved to Liberia were African Americans. So if you are going to blame anyone blame African Americans who btw were given this land to do as they please.
@@kingdc7017 You seem to be implying that African Americans can't be successful and/or are destructive. If only history was as simple as your one dimensional summary displays it as. I'm sorry but you don't really seem to know the true history of Liberia.
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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.
Keep your apology. I want that land.👍🏽
Stop believing in promises, law rules the land
Why? it's not your land.
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)
Pass a bill that does nothing , I can study at home 🤣
*#B1-#ADOS-#FBA-#FREEDMEN-#CUTTHECHECK-#REPARATIONS
#DONTVOTEBLUEorRED* "We have No friends"- Dr.John Henrik Clarke
Mules don't reproduce a horse or donkey would be better.
That’s y they wanted to give us one. I just want my 40 acres abs a Tesla and I’m good.
@@daphneepaul3737 youll get 40 acres in liberia (the country that was literally gifted to African Americans which you immediately turned into a sh*thole)
@@kingdc7017 by your own definition America is also a shit hole. I don't know how everyone tries to get around that fact.
Thats 1,750,000 sq ft
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
Brother are you even speaking English?
@@JD-ii5wr He's high
The End..
PLEASE GET IN CONTACT WITH ME LOUIS HENRY GATES MY FAMILY NEEDS YOUR HELP WITH THIS
We got lied to
Who’s here for school work hahaha
Here from two songs
me
Meeew
They got Juneteenth and platitudes instead 🤦🏼♂️
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Pit5 watcher + xl
Reparations now!
The United States bought slaves...that's bad. The people that sold them were worse. We should track down the ancestors of the people that gathered those people up to be sold and make them pay. Wait a second, the ancestors of those people will still be in Africa and the United States. Oh man. Now what do we do.
The United States bought slaves...that's bad. The people that sold them were worse. We should track down the ancestors of the people that gathered those people up to be sold and make them pay. Wait a second, the ancestors of those people will still be in Africa and the United States. Oh man. Now what do we do.
@@MikeC-my4lf naw just give us judical jurisdiction over our ppl and let us claim our own nationality and we good
@@yourdedcat-qr7ln I am a veteran...we didn't see race in the military...to an extent... different time where people could talk without getting offended.. real talk. We all understood the black-white thing. I remember we had a black Command Sergeant Major that walked up on a group of black troops that were talkin shit and calling each other "nigga". CSM McGriff didn't pay that shit. Locked them all up at attention and said "You dumb mother fuckas! Let that word die. Y'all don't know the shit I've lived through. That word needs to die. You know damn well if a white soldier said that shit you'd be fightin. If a white soldier can't say it, neither can you." Won't forget that. That man grew up through bullshit in this country...a country he was willing to die for. Let that sink in for a second. That man lived through racial garbage in a country he was willing to die for because he saw a better tomorrow. He truly believed in the honorable Dr Martin Luther King Jr's hopeful world where children would "NOT be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character". Dr King was a patriot. He loved this country. By the way "Free at last, free at last" doesn't happen in Socialist countries where the government rules and everyone is poor. Last...my oath of enlistment to protect our country and it's freedom ends when I die...I'd take a bullet so you can be free... actually, I'm service disabled...don't like to talk about that. So I leave you with something to think about...you want sovereignty...how are your communities doing...are there a bunch of single moms with no dad around...how is the crime rate by people in your own communities...do most kids try to get an education and read...do the people that finally get a good job that were struggling stay in your communities or do they move to a different community...
@@MikeC-my4lf what is the cause you think of all those things my community is plagued for? The government never purposely sabotaged the communities you speak of? Is there absolutely no example of intellectualization with people of my community? No one amongst all of us can lead us to something better?
Reparations God is real. And So is his judgment day. Where's our Reparations🦶🏿🦶🏿
Every word out of their mouth is a lie when you see them coming run the other way to all mankind
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Slavery was wrong then and now. Wish folks cared about today's slaves more.
& they don’t
Thanks Johnson smh
40 acres and a mule? A piano a guitar?
anything see my name is Lucy I'm your dog
We should take care of Native Americans first
No. Take care of the people who built the country.
Wonder if this pertains to all with African DNA
I'm pretty sure a certain percentage
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.
He did have a legal right to declare this, as it was a special order approved by the Department of War. The argument that you've made is the equivelent of saying that the President has no right to draft executive orders. Special and executive orders aren't forms of legislation, but rather executive policy.
It was turned into a law. Learn history
That’s what white people say when they aren’t gonna pay us for slavery it’s okay I’ll have 30 grandchildren in America 🇺🇸 when it’s all said and done so I win 🥇 🙏🏿 rip all my ANNCESTORS 🙏🏿 we didn’t get the land but we will never be a victim again not on my 15 kids watch
THIS ORDER WAS HANDED DOWN AND EXECUTED BY THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF
The land was not the generals to give away. All that land was Cherokee Muskogee and Seminole land.
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.
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Did the homesteaders get asked those same questions? I'm sure not since they were all genocidal maniacs.
@@uluzistherealest That was the whole point of my comment.
An what’s your solution for free slaves given no compensation or money to survive!? Y’all say the dumbest shit without thinking
An you forget free slaves doesn’t mean white people are trying to house them for trades and shit! Get real
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
The US gave plenty of land to native Americans as reparations for expansion. Not easy to up and move to a new land with no people or infrastructure with no money or skills to do it. Some did but that’s the key thing, they did not have skills
🙄 oh lord! Not this again
I'm going to assume you're white, just an assumption.
PROPERTY CANT OWN PROPERTY
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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