Senin, 24 April 2017

A Promise Betrayed: Reconstruction Policies Prevented Freedmen from Realizing the American Dream

n January 16, 1865, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which one admiring biographer lauded as “the single most revolutionary act in race relations in the Civil War.” The order promised thousands of freedmen 40-acre parcels of land located in a 30-mile wide swath from Charleston south along the Atlantic …

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