What was the promise of "forty acres and a mule" about?
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The promise of "forty acres and a mule" was a land grant offered to freed slaves after the Civil War. This promise was part of Special Field Order No. 15, issued by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865. The order granted 40 acres of land and a mule to each freed slave family in the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
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