"In October of 1865, the freedpeople of Edisto Island, South Carolina, learned that the land they had farmed during the war and now regarded as their own was about to be restored to its rebel owners. They sent a letter of protest to General O. O. Howard, commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau. “Land monopoly is injurious to the advancement of the course of freedom,” wrote a committee of three, “and if Government Does not make some provision by which we as Freedmen can obtain A Homestead, we have Not bettered our condition.” This judgment reflected the sentiment of former slaves..."
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1865History of the United StatesAmerican Civil WarSlavery in the United StatesAfrican-American history
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Edward Royce, “Forty Acres and a Mule.” The Origins of Southern Sharecropping, Temple University Press, 1993, pp. 86–118. JSTOR
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