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We’ve all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was ...
Jun 13, 2024 · One was dated 1865 and named Fergus Wilson as the recipient of 40 acres on Sapelo Island, Georgia. I was looking at documents in the Smithsonian’s digital archives of the Freedmen’s Bureau,...
Jan 12, 2015 · The Green-Meldrim House in Savannah, Ga., is where Gen. William T. Sherman held meetings with local black leaders, creating the plan later known as "40 acres and a mule." Sarah McCammon/NPR....
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- Confederate Land Claimed For African Americans
- Promise Is Rescinded After Lincoln's Death
- African Americans Forced to Work as Sharecroppers
The idea to strip Southern enslavers of their land wasn’t exclusive to the leaders who attended the Green-Meldrim House meeting. Abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens had promoted the idea as a way to financially devastate Confederate landowners. Still, Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr.credits Savannah’s Black leaders with spearh...
The government didn’t keep its promise. Following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, President Andrew Johnsonrescinded Field Order 15 and returned to Confederate owners the 400,000 acres of land—“a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina to the St. John’s River in Florida, including Georgia’s Sea Isla...
Without land of their own to work, the 3.9 million members of the formerly enslaved population struggled to control their own destiny after the Civil war ended. Many found themselves working white people’s land as sharecroppersor tenant farmers, a system that was only slightly better than slavery, given the meager wages and exploitation associated ...
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Monty Austin Ross (born March 7, 1957) is an American film producer and director. He is the co-founder of 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks alongside Spike Lee and has produced, She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992) and Crooklyn (1994).
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 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).
Jan 7, 2013 · We've all heard the story of the "40 acres and a mule" promise to former slaves. It's a staple of black history lessons, and it's the name of Spike Lee's film company.
