JANUARY 12, 1865:
A group of African-American community
leaders meet with Union Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and General William
Tecumseh Sherman U.S.A. to discuss the fate of the Freedmen. It is from this
meeting that Sherman and Stanton devise the plan to grant each freed family
forty acres of expropriated plantation lands. Sherman subsequently, and upon
reflection, includes the gift of farming implements and draught animals in the
plan, leading to the famed “Forty Acres and a Mule” plan. It is the first
attempt at American social engineering.
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