Promised by whom? I know that Sherman proposed this, but who "promised" this? Was there a law? The Freedman's Bureau Act? Give me the cite for this provisiion. That's not a promise anyway. Was it repealed? The FBA was. it Was there an enforceable contract? With whom? Btw, the statute of limitations on contract claims is long run. --jks
>From: Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Horowitz/Reparations for slavery
>Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:14:34 -0800 (PST)
>
>Justin writes:
>
><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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