mad1961
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Republicans here and in other places love trying to make claims about Democrats and racism. The love telling blacks how it was Repubicans that freed the slaves, that it was democrats who started the KKK, that it was Republicans in higher percentages that voted for the Civil Rights Act. So let's play their game for a moment.
Republicans promised blacks reparations after slavery. As a result of emancipation, in January of 1865, Special Field Order 15 was issued. In July 1865, Circular 13 was issued by General Oliver Howard, fully authorizing the lease of 40-acre plots of land to the newly freed blacks.
As a result of these actions, 40,000 formerly enslaved people began work on land that now belonged to them. But President Andrew Johnson killed these two orders and removed those 40,000 blacks from that land while destroying any income they could make. He gave the land back to whites.
So are Republicans today willing to keep the promise they made and pay blacks the reparations they promised?
Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 15,” in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 47, Part II (Washington: GPO, 1895), pp.60-62 http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/ after_slavery_educator/unit_three_documents/document_five
Circular #13 War Department Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Washington July 28, 1865,” Source: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 105, Entry 24, No. 139 Asst Adjutant General Circulars 1865-1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, pp. 14-15. (Transcribed
Republicans promised blacks reparations after slavery. As a result of emancipation, in January of 1865, Special Field Order 15 was issued. In July 1865, Circular 13 was issued by General Oliver Howard, fully authorizing the lease of 40-acre plots of land to the newly freed blacks.
As a result of these actions, 40,000 formerly enslaved people began work on land that now belonged to them. But President Andrew Johnson killed these two orders and removed those 40,000 blacks from that land while destroying any income they could make. He gave the land back to whites.
So are Republicans today willing to keep the promise they made and pay blacks the reparations they promised?
Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 15,” in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 47, Part II (Washington: GPO, 1895), pp.60-62 http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/ after_slavery_educator/unit_three_documents/document_five
Circular #13 War Department Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Washington July 28, 1865,” Source: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 105, Entry 24, No. 139 Asst Adjutant General Circulars 1865-1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, pp. 14-15. (Transcribed
