forty acres and a mule
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- freedmenPeople released from slavery
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- ShermanAmerican tank model
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
emancipation · land reform · Civil War · Georgia · confiscated · homestead · slavery · labor · cotton · South · Juneteenth · restitution · federal · acreage · plow · soil · liberation
reparations/restitution
forty acres and a muledispossession
Deprival of property rights
sharecropping · broken promises · Jim Crow · convict leasing · plantation system
economic status for freedpeople
forty acres and a mulelandlessness
Lacking owned territory
tenant farming · sharecropping · economic dependency · wage slavery · propertylessness
economic redistribution
forty acres and a mulelanded gentry
Landowning class living on rents
wealth concentration · landlordism · tenant farming · redlining · asset stripping