A new investigative report has identified 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were initially granted land as reparations, only to have it seized back after President Lincoln's assassination. The project, a collaboration between Reveal, Public Integrity, and Mother Jones, involved extensive genealogical research to locate living descendants of those who lost their land. For the first time, these descendants were informed about the specific land that had been taken from their ancestors. The report, which took 2.5 years to complete, highlights the broken promise of '40 acres and a mule' made by General Sherman and underscores the ongoing debate about reparations for Black Americans.
Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations https://t.co/ZOKg2hNY8t https://t.co/5nNaorgcXk
A report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in Colorado by the state and the U.S. and the more than $546 million the state has reaped in mineral... https://t.co/mKl4Oa9iC2
Colorado was built on stolen tribal land worth $1.7tn, report finds https://t.co/NdFAqf0DJ7
"40 Acres and a Lie" - Compelling, important collaboration between @publicintegrity @MotherJones @reveal about the bitter legacy of the civil war and the case for reparations https://t.co/fqrPi62AWA
Are folks in Colorado ready to pay this money? Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations | AP News https://t.co/0PRe9NBcCa
Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations https://t.co/Twv5rf69vl https://t.co/1KVKoWrKwZ
Are We Living on Stolen Land? https://t.co/f1Sd7MVy2h
1/ Today we began to roll out an incredible 2.5 year project with @reveal and @publicintegrity. We found 1250 formerly enslaved people who WERE given the 40 Acres Gen Sherman promised them, only to have it seized back after Lincoln was killed https://t.co/XuGjIUTdw9
Wow. The team did genealogical research + located "living descendants of many of those who had received and then lost the land. For the first time, these living Black Americans were made aware of the specific land that had been given to and then taken away from their ancestors." https://t.co/Phxx8hrBp4
We identified 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were pledged land as reparations—only to have it seized back. @AlexiaCampbell, @aprilleticia, @pratheekrebala tell the history of a program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles: https://t.co/zioAIXP3E8