1 gen 1869 anni - SC makes a land commission to buy and resell property to landless

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*freedmen in the South and Republicans in Washington seriously differed on questions of land and labor.

-congress wanted to restore south's cotton using former slaves as wageworkers
-few congresspeople argued that freed slaved had earned land grants. Some wanted plantations to be forfeited and broken up into small farms for former slaves.
-others said land was achieved with a purchase, not by earning it
-w/out land, former slaves were left poor+vulnerable
-" Though often accused of harshness toward the defeated Confederacy, most Republicans — even Radicals — could not imagine “giving” land to former slaves. "
-smae congressmen had no problems giving homesteads to white ppl from native American plans
-some congressmen used tax policy to try and break up large landholdings to get land to poorer whites and blacks

*this initiative was an exception

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