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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.

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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.