Podcast: The Story Behind "40 Acres And A Mule," Duration: 3:43
Subject
Forty Acres and a Mule
Title
Podcast: The Story Behind "40 Acres And A Mule," Duration: 3:43
Date
01/12/2015
Type
Podcast
Description
NPR features a podcast in which reporter Sarah McCammon discusses the origins, development, and eventual reversal of "Forty Acres and a Mule," which was part of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 that was issued on January 16, 1865, to allot land and leftover Army mules to some formerly enslaved African American families. The podcast includes commentary from Susan Arden-Joly, a preservationist and tour guide at Green-Meldrim House where Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton met with local Black leaders; Charles Elmore, a professor emeritus of humanities at Savannah State University; Stan Deaton, who serves as the Senior Historian of the Georgia Historical Society; and Vaughnette Goode-Walker, a writer who leads tours focused on Black history in Savannah.
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National Public Radio (NPR)
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