NPR features a podcast in which reporter Sarah McCammon discusses the origins, development, and eventual reversal of "Forty Acres…
PBS presents a modern article, written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., titled, "The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule,'" which examines…
The Washington Post features an article, written by DeNeen L. Brown and published on April 15, 2021, titled, "40 Acres and a Mule:…
PBS provides a video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, which explains the origins of the phrase “Forty…
Zinn Project Education features a lesson activity created by Adam Sanchez that involves multiday role play based on the phrase,…
BlackPast provides the text of the historical military orders that were issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on…
The National Archives features an article that was written by Miranda Booker Perry and published in the summer 2010 edition of…
The African American Intellectual History Society features an article, written by Karen Cook Bell and published on November 11,…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History provides a historical contract between White landowner Isham G. Bailey and Black…
The New York Public Library features a bulleted, biographical profile on Robert Smalls- a formerly enslaved man who later became a…
Black History in Two Minutes presents a 2-minute video on Robert Smalls and his naval escape from slavery. Harvard Professor,…
South Carolina ETV presents an 11-minute educational video on the life of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved man who later became…
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents a 4-minute, narrated account of the life of Roberts Smalls, a…
Note: See last column, 2nd to last paragraph. Chronicling America presents a September 12, 1862 article from the The Weekly…
Note: See 4th column, 3rd to last paragraph.Chronicling America presents a December 4, 1863 article from the Rutland Weekly Herald…
Note: See 6th column, 2nd to last paragraph. Chronicling America presents a March 12, 1863 article from the Litchfield Enquirer…