Black Americans DID get reparations but the U.S. government stole it back.
In 1865, General Sherman’s Field Order No. 15 gave freed Black families 40 acres of land along the South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida coasts which is the origin of “40 acres and a mule.” Nearly 40,000 people settled and began farming.
But when Lincoln was assassinated, President Andrew Johnson reversed the order and returned the land to former Confederate slaveholders. Freedmen were evicted and pushed into sharecropping and debt peonage.
This was the first major theft of Black wealth by the U.S. government. Reparations technically were given and stolen back.
I advise any of you who can trace their lineage to the groups who had their land allotments revoked to press the courts
Never forget
