Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh...

has produced all of Lee's films. The company's name is a reference to forty acres and a mule, a section of military orders during the American Civil War...

Forty Acres may be: 40 Acres (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call Forty acres and a mule, a term for compensation that was supposedly to be awarded...

"Forty acres and a mule" meeting. Frazier's intervention helped to motivate General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 or the "Forty acres and a mule"...

Homestead Acts Black homesteaders Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), pp. 86–87. Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), p. 81, 93. Paul Wallace Gates,...

state would have to take a loyalty oath, not just ten percent. Lincoln later pocket-vetoed this new bill. Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Bureau Treatment...

600 km2) in coastal Georgia and South Carolina to 40,000 freed slaves in forty-acre plots, this order was intended to provide for the thousands of escaped...

in farming, leading to the phrase "forty acres and a mule". The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the government and President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to...

Freedmen's Savings Bank Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Cemetery Chalmette, Louisiana Freedmen's Schools McHatton Home Colony For access and inquires about the...

both his arms. List of massacres in Louisiana Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction", Humanities, January/February...

people (summarized as the promise of "forty acres and a mule"). She continued to fight on behalf of women and African Americans until her death. As her...

reconstruction states like South Carolina and Tennessee. In the wake of the Civil War, the civil rights of former slaves was a hotly debated issue in the Union...

prophet", NYU Press, New York, 2008. Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership. Louisiana State University Press...

robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as a restitution...

McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote. For the election, the Republican Party and some Democrats...

Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth. However...

and Johnson's would-be attacker became drunk instead of killing the vice president. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the end of a...

Republican Party and held their own convention. The 1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform...

During the Civil War and Reconstruction. ISBN 978-0-8232-1894-3. Retrieved July 5, 2010. Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of...

advised him to go for a third term and he almost did so, but on December 15, 1875, the House, by a sweeping 233–18 vote, passed a resolution declaring...

other songs and aspects of American culture. One of the opening lines, "Fifty acres and Model A", reflect the promise of forty acres and a mule to be given...

reputation in the Republican Party as a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction. He served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio...

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is reflected in a brief scene in which Mammy fends off a leering freedman: a politician can be heard offering forty acres and a mule to the emancipated...

newspaper called Forty Acres and a Mule, as he initially wanted to become a writer. During this time he went through a life-style change and became a vegetarian...

the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on...

cases into the first group and commuted their sentences. In the second group were forty cases. One he commuted for becoming a state's witness. Sibley dismissed...

1875, pp. 106–107. Alexander, Danielle (January–February 2004). "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction". Humanities. 25 (1). Archived...

pro-worker, decentralized views promoted by Dorothy Day. "Forty acres and a mule", referring to a promised reallocation of land to formerly-enslaved peoples...

traitors and therefore could not be trusted. Lincoln ended up killing the bill with a pocket veto, and it was not resurrected. Davis was a bitter enemy...