TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldM to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 4 months ago40 Acres and a Liewww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11file-text
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We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.