Category: Agriculture
“40 Acres & A Lie” Podcast On The Taking Away Of Land Distributed to Free African Americans Episode 1
“40 Acres & A Lie” is podcast from NPR on Sherman’s order giving land to freedmen on the Sea Islands in 1865. This is a…
Eric Foner on the Difficult Struggle for Economic Advancement of Freedpeople
Eric Foner was interviewed this weekend by The Hill on lessons from Reconstruction. Foner focuses on why economic advances have been so hard to come…
“The main reliance…must be upon the black population” Coming to terms with free Black labor 1868
The Richmond Whig was a staunch opponent of Republican Reconstruction plans, but as this article indicates it could be realistic in its assessment of the…