<There is no legal claim, not because the slaves are dead, but because slavery was legal. At law, dead people may recover, or living people may recover on their behalf, in certain circumstances, if there is a legally cognizable wrong>
No no no! It's missing the point entirely (unless someone already brought this up)
This was what was promised AFTER the civil war
"That out of the lands thus seized and confiscated by operations of the war and the amendment to the Constitution or otherwise, who resided in said ‘Confederate states’ on the fourth day of March, A.D. 1861, or since shall have distributed to them as follows, namely: to each adult, male, whether the head of family, 40 acres to be held by them in fee-simple, but to the inalienable for the next 10 years after they become seized thereof."
As far as I know, the North won the civil war and therefore this should be binding--now rather than giving 40 acres and a mule, they should be compensated based on the interest that may have accumulated if this was given when it was promised...
Kevin Dean
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