Slavery needed to end,..no doubt about it. It went on far too long in America. But one big issue that nobody knew how to address was 4 million slaves that had nothing being turned out to fend for themselves.
40 acres and a mule.
https://www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm ...Slavery was nothing more than a bad memory; the Fourteenth Amendment to the ... unique to their condition also prevented many freed blacks from moving ahead. ... Movement to parts further west, such as Kansas, began almost immediately ...
...Thousands of African-Americans made their way to Kansas and other Western states after Reconstruction. The Homestead Act and other liberal land laws offered blacks (in theory) the opportunity to escape the racism and oppression of the post-war South and become owners of their own tracts of private farmland. For people who had spent their lives working the lands of white masters with no freedom or pay, the opportunities offered by these land laws must have seemed the answer to prayer. Many individuals and families were indeed willing to leave the only place they had known to move to a place few of them had ever seen. The large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas came to be known as the "Great Exodus," and those participating in it were called "exodusters." ...
Probably isn't there anymore...
there use to be historical markers up in Stearns County MN, where a bunch of land was given to former black slave by the Federal Government in 1868....
yeah, good compassionate Northerners and their "love" for former slaves...
it was pretty much swamp land, where you couldn't grow nothing..
no shelter etc... most of them froze to death in the first winter....those that didn't starved...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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