40 Acres and a Mule

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This was a promise made - to provide 40 acres to freed slaves after the Civil War - confiscated from former slaveholders - but the promise was not kept.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/