[lbo-talk] Black land ownership after Emancipation

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.google.com/search?q=black+landownership+reconstruction
Thomas W. Mitchell, Excerpted from: "From Reconstruction to  
Deconstruction: Undermining Black Landownership, Political Independence,  
And Community Through Partition Sales of Tenancies in Common",  
Northwestern University Law Review 505 - 580, 505-511 (Winter 2001)  
(Citations omited)
> ...Though largely unknown and uncelebrated within or outside of the  
> African American community today, African Americans acquired  
> approximately fifteen million acres of land in the South in the fifty  
> years following Emancipation.

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Michael Pugliese