Historical Newspaper: The Condition of the South
Subject
Forty Acres and a Mule
Title
Historical Newspaper: The Condition of the South
Date
09/26/1867
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: See fourth column on page one. Some language may be offensive to readers.
Chronicling America features an article from the September 26, 1867 edition of the Memphis Daily Appeal, titled, "The Condition of the South," which offers a perspective that reviewed the "great nobleness" of the Southern people after the Civil War, criticized attempts to pursue racial equality, and the lamentable financial situation in the South. According to the article, negros everywhere go armed to the teeth" and "their nights are spent in secret political assemblies" where they "confidently look for speedy confiscation of the landed property, to give to every negro, 'forty acres and a mule.'" The phrase, "Forty Acres and a Mule," 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 formerly enslaved African American families. This promise was unfulfilled.
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Chronicling America features an article from the September 26, 1867 edition of the Memphis Daily Appeal, titled, "The Condition of the South," which offers a perspective that reviewed the "great nobleness" of the Southern people after the Civil War, criticized attempts to pursue racial equality, and the lamentable financial situation in the South. According to the article, negros everywhere go armed to the teeth" and "their nights are spent in secret political assemblies" where they "confidently look for speedy confiscation of the landed property, to give to every negro, 'forty acres and a mule.'" The phrase, "Forty Acres and a Mule," 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 formerly enslaved African American families. This promise was unfulfilled.
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (Memphis Daily Appeal, TN)
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“Historical Newspaper: The Condition of the South,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 6, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/23.