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2025-02-12 01:36:18 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 09AB0CDEA3F716BC1833EAFAD0F3DF975123175E52D8D25F90AE97684FB0CFB7
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The "40 acres" policy—a temporary military order (rescinded within months and never law)—reached just ~1,250 Black families (~0.03% of freed slaves). Its impermanence and minuscule reach invalidate claims of systemic debt owed to all African Americans. https://historyhub.history.gov/african-american-records/f/discussions/23990/seeking-origins-of-40-acres-and-a-mule https://www.freedmen.umd.edu/sfo15.htm https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/lancet-reparations/files/darity_w._forty_acres_2008.pdf
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