Forty acres and a mule
Freed persons
African americans, southern states
Southern states, social conditions
Land reform
Freedmen
Southern states, race relations
Reconstruction
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Land tenure
Race relations
African Americans
Social conditions
United States
History
First published in 1978, this work has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. The author examines of why the majority of freed slaves were denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly rese…
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