The federal government failed to provide formerly enslaved people with 40 acres at the end of the war in 1865, but it offered White people 160 acres to move westward, starting in 1862, through the Homestead Act. That pretty much sums up the problem with America.
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Image how different this country would have been if the government had followed through on its commitment.
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Slave owners were paid reparations for loss of property but slaves were never paid for lost wages
