Where Is My Forty Acres And A Mule???

It's a topic that African Americans don't like to talk about. Something that African Americans were promised, since 1865, which equals 146 years and counting with no compensation from slavery. In 1865 the so called "Forty Acres and a Mule", rule was made. Each freedman was to receive Forty Acres and later offered the loan of Army mules. Did the government lie to us or are we just misunderstood, or did the government just put a pacifier in our mouths fo us to stop crying.

The creation of the black proletariat following the revolutionary abolition of slavery was integrally linked to the land avestion. The majority of the freed slaves were denied ownership. Two years after the Civil War, the majority of the ex-slaves were drawn into contract, labor gangs on plantations under the notorious Black Codes adopted by most state governments of the vanquished confederate slavocracy. Blacks organized in the south to resist this effort by the planters to restore virtual slave labor conditions they won the support of a few sectors of the northern labor movement.

As a result of the war struggle, Radical Reconstruction plans were brought up by the south in 1867 with the mandate of the U.S. Congress and supported the Union Army. The new government repealed the Black Codes. The freed blacks waged a struggle for land, a reform that would break up the old plantations. Of the former slave owners and divide the land among freed slaves and other small rural producers. They fought for the tools, livestock, cheap credit, and other things they needed to make ago of it as free farmers. "Forty Acres and a Mule" became their slogan.

Most of the freed slaves did not get any land; instead they were forced into share cropping, tenant farming, or wage labor in the fields and towns. The defeat of the Radical Reconstruction was suffered because of the freed slaves who