By June of 1865, some 40,000 Freedmen had been allocated 400,000 acres of land.

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Reference: Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, Excerpt from Black Exodus: The Ex-Slave Pension Movement Reader,in Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations(ed. Raymond A. Winbush, PhD 2003) at p. 25.

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By June of 1865, some 40,000 Freedmen had been allocated 400,000 acres of land.

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