The period that came after the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation that should have seen the South rebuilt, and Black subjects of empire made not only whole, but equal to the white man. (Only part of one of these things actually happened.) Large parts of the efforts aimed at making newfound Freedmen whole would be scuttled by the klansman king Andrew Johnson and those to follow him; notable among the reforms that got the axe being Union general Ulysses S. Grant's "Field Order 15", which is where the 'forty acres and a mule' bit in Amerikan history sources from.
I think only like ten Freedmen actually got that land and mule before Johnson deaded that order.
The period that came after the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation that should have seen the South rebuilt, and Black subjects of empire made not only whole, but equal to the white man. (Only part of one of these things actually happened.) Large parts of the efforts aimed at making newfound Freedmen whole would be scuttled by the klansman king Andrew Johnson and those to follow him; notable among the reforms that got the axe being Union general Ulysses S. Grant's "Field Order 15", which is where the 'forty acres and a mule' bit in Amerikan history sources from.
I think only like ten Freedmen actually got that land and mule before Johnson deaded that order.