""Laßt die Schornsteine wieder rauchen! / Sozial ist, wer Arbeit schafft / Hugenberg kann's!" -Flugblatt: Wahlaufruf d…"

"I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the forty acres and a mule that the United States initially promis…"

"So far as the Negroes were concerned, their demand for a reasonable part of the land on which they had worked for a q…"

"To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democ…"

"The Sherman order gave rise to all sorts of difficulties. The Negroes were given only possessory titles. Then the own…"

"President Johnson, forgetting his own pre-war declaration that the “great plantations must be seized, and divided int…"

"The Negro voter ... had, then, but one clear economic ideal and that was his demand for land, his demand that the gre…"

"Treason must be made odious, and the traitors must be punished and impoverished, their great plantations must be seiz…"

"In October of 1865, the freedpeople of Edisto Island, South Carolina, learned that the land they had farmed during th…"

"Wer Dankbarkeit fordert, verdient keine."