"President Johnson, forgetting his own pre-war declaration that the “great plantations must be seized, and divided into small farms,” declared that this land must be restored to its original owners and this would be done if owners received a presidential pardon. The pardoning power was pushed and the land all over the South rapidly restored. Negroes were dispossessed."
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1865History of the United StatesAmerican Civil WarSlavery in the United StatesAfrican-American history
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W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935), p. 603
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