Historical Speech: The Campaign in South Carolina: Speech of General Hampton
Subject
Forty Acres and a Mule
Title
Historical Speech: The Campaign in South Carolina: Speech of General Hampton
Date
08/04/1868
Type
Historical Speech
Description
Note: See the middle of the second column on page eight, where the speech begins. Some language may be offensive to readers.
Chronicling America provides a speech that was delivered by Wade Hampton, a former Confederate General who would become an active Democrat in both state and national politics, on August 4, 1868 in Aiken, South Carolina, in which he addressed issues of rebuilding the South after the Civil War in the midst of supposed opposition from Radical Republicans and the "unconstituitional" Reconstruction Acts. Included in his speech, Hampton claimed that "the radical promise of forty acres and a mule will come to nothing," and instead insisted that Northern Republicans would only provide African Americans with "a piece of land six feet by three feet, enough to bury you in." The phrase, "Forty Acres and a Mule," was a reference to 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 provides a speech that was delivered by Wade Hampton, a former Confederate General who would become an active Democrat in both state and national politics, on August 4, 1868 in Aiken, South Carolina, in which he addressed issues of rebuilding the South after the Civil War in the midst of supposed opposition from Radical Republicans and the "unconstituitional" Reconstruction Acts. Included in his speech, Hampton claimed that "the radical promise of forty acres and a mule will come to nothing," and instead insisted that Northern Republicans would only provide African Americans with "a piece of land six feet by three feet, enough to bury you in." The phrase, "Forty Acres and a Mule," was a reference to 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 (The New York Herald, NY)
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“Historical Speech: The Campaign in South Carolina: Speech of General Hampton,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 6, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/26.