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William Darity Jr.: Reconstruction-era Records Reveal How Formerly Enslaved People Were Stripped of Land
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Well, a new investigative series by the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and "Reveal" finds that while it was assumed 40 acres was only promised to newly freed Black people, the government did indeed give land to more than 1,200 formerly enslaved men and women only to take the land back after their former enslavers protested. And just to be clear - so we found about 150, like, the physical land titles, but we also found logs, registers, with names of people who got - I guess, about 1,250 people who got those land titles. So in the end, the last thing they did was they're like, OK, well, people who have land titles and they're still in that land - we'll give them the option to buy some land that we own - the government owns in South Carolina.