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SUBSCRIBE TO REVEAL ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST APPHearken to the trailer:40 Acres and a Lie Half 1After Jim Hutchinson was free of slavery in 1865, the federal authorities gave him a land title: 40 acres on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Quickly after, that land was taken again.By way of his descendants and the descendants of a former slaveholder, we reveal the reality about “40 acres and a mule.”40 Acres and a Lie Half 2In 1865, Skidaway Island, Georgia, was turning into a Black utopia. Former cotton plantations gave method to a self-governing Black neighborhood. That’s, till the federal authorities revoked 40 acres for tens of 1000’s of previously enslaved folks and returned the land to former slaveholders. Right now, a lot of Skidaway Island belongs to The Landings, a rich, principally White gated neighborhood.40 Acres and a Lie Half 3Forty acres and a mule has come to symbolize an unpaid debt, and it’s served as a rallying cry for generations of Black residents demanding reparations. The ultimate episode on this sequence explores how the talk round reparations has moved from the fringes to the mainstream, as a rising variety of states, cities and even one county within the South are actively exploring making amends.Associated
It’s typically considered a promise that was by no means saved. However “40 acres and a mule” was greater than that. It was actual. This three-part sequence from Reveal and the Heart for Public Integrity tells the historical past of an often-misunderstood authorities program that gave greater than 1,200 previously enslaved folks land titles, solely to take the land again, fueling a wealth hole that continues to be right now.
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40 Acres and a Lie Half 1
After Jim Hutchinson was free of slavery in 1865, the federal authorities gave him a land title: 40 acres on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Quickly after, that land was taken again.By way of his descendants and the descendants of a former slaveholder, we reveal the reality about “40 acres and a mule.”
40 Acres and a Lie Half 2
In 1865, Skidaway Island, Georgia, was turning into a Black utopia. Former cotton plantations gave method to a self-governing Black neighborhood. That’s, till the federal authorities revoked 40 acres for tens of 1000’s of previously enslaved folks and returned the land to former slaveholders. Right now, a lot of Skidaway Island belongs to The Landings, a rich, principally White gated neighborhood.
40 Acres and a Lie Half 3
Forty acres and a mule has come to symbolize an unpaid debt, and it’s served as a rallying cry for generations of Black residents demanding reparations. The ultimate episode on this sequence explores how the talk round reparations has moved from the fringes to the mainstream, as a rising variety of states, cities and even one county within the South are actively exploring making amends.
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