#337: We're Still Writing Black History

It’s time to check in on a complex and ongoing process we shared with you in Podcast Delivery #308 – reparations for the descendants of formerly enslaved Black people in America.

For those that didn’t take Black History classes growing up:

Forty acres and a mule were promised to former slaves in the United States.

A Special Field Order was issued on January 16, 1865 during the American Civil War, intended to redistribute coastal land in Georgia and South Carolina for Black settlement. Each family was to receive forty acres of land.

The mules were actually an afterthought, but the phrase “forty acres and a mule” persists to this day and remains a symbol of the unfulfilled promise of land redistribution after the Civil War.