Tillable Ground News Today

Order 15 that confiscated a swath of land that reached from south carolina all the way south to florida and included the sea islands of georgia and extended 30 miles west onto the mainland. his order set aside 400,000 acres of land and it was to be redistributed to newly emancipated black families in those states. according to section three, each family shall have a plot of not more than 40 acres of tillable ground. eventually nearly 40,000 freed men and women settled on the land, minus the mule...