Working Class History@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD 12 Jan 1865 20 Black leaders met with Union Gen. William Sherman in Savannah, GA. "40 acres & a mule" plan was devised to seize 400k acres from Confederate landowners to freed Black families to help defeat the Confederacy. Pres Johnson reversed it https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8390/40-acres-and-a-mule-plan