40 Acres And A Mule
The Truth Behind 40 Acres and a Mule
It turned out that 40 acres and a mule was created by Black leaders
- The 40 acres and a mule promise was broken
- 40 acres and a mule was a failure
- Many freed slaves became sharecroppers
- Andrew Johnson overturned and all the land from the 40 acres was returned to it's original owner's
What people thought
The Filmwork
The End
There has been a 40 acres and a mule filmwork
The movie is about a short lived policy of providing land to black slaves who had become free.
- Made by general William Tecumseh Sherman
- Every free slave would get 40 acres and a mule
- It was a good plan for many of the freed slaves
- Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner decided to take land from plantation owners and give it to freed slaves
- The problem was many republicans were against it
- Even radicals were against Stevens plan.