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aug 11, 1865 - Andrew Johnson orders all land in federal hands returned to its former owners

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aka to whites | blacks were furious but remained poor / propertyless for most of Reconstruction | had no other option but to work on white-plantations, often for their former owners

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Date:

aug 11, 1865
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~ 160 years ago