Historical Newspaper: The Old Chestnut: "Forty Acres and a Mule" Ripped Up the Back
Subject
Forty Acres and a Mule
Title
Historical Newspaper: The Old Chestnut: "Forty Acres and a Mule" Ripped Up the Back
Date
02/05/1896
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: This article begins in the middle of the fifth paragraph on page one.
Chronicling America provides an article from the February 5, 1896 edition of the Barbour County Index, titled, "The Old Chestnut: 'Forty Acres and a Mule' Ripped Up the Back," which accused the "old party machines" leading the federal government of providing financial "gifts" to railroads, bondholders, and bankers. According to the article, if the "gifts" that had been given to these coorporations had been "distributed among the actual farmers in the United States each would have received the equivalent in value, not of 'forty acres and a mule,' but of ninety acres and nearly two mules." The phrase "Forty Acres and a Mule," was derived from 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 formerly enslaved African American families. The article compares this unfulfilled promise with the alledged "process of robbery" occurring in the United States toward the end of the nineteenth century.
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Chronicling America provides an article from the February 5, 1896 edition of the Barbour County Index, titled, "The Old Chestnut: 'Forty Acres and a Mule' Ripped Up the Back," which accused the "old party machines" leading the federal government of providing financial "gifts" to railroads, bondholders, and bankers. According to the article, if the "gifts" that had been given to these coorporations had been "distributed among the actual farmers in the United States each would have received the equivalent in value, not of 'forty acres and a mule,' but of ninety acres and nearly two mules." The phrase "Forty Acres and a Mule," was derived from 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 formerly enslaved African American families. The article compares this unfulfilled promise with the alledged "process of robbery" occurring in the United States toward the end of the nineteenth century.
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (Barbour County Index, KS)
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“Historical Newspaper: The Old Chestnut: "Forty Acres and a Mule" Ripped Up the Back,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 6, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/21.