HY 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reconstruction: White Southerners, White League, Coushatta Massacre
14 Feb 2018
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Youtube link available on blackboard in documentary folder. Due in discussion sections the week of january 15. What is the origin of the african american community, led by tunis campbell, on st. It was only a temporary order but it became one of the most controversial of the civil war. There were plantations in the rice country of south. Carolina that had been abandoned by white planters during the war and 400,000 of these acres were given over to african americans for settlement. 40 acres of land were to be given to each family and they could have a mule if they wanted one, there was left over mules from the war. African americans wanted to have the same rights as other citizens, they spent so many years being treated inhumanely and this was their chance to build a life for themselves. Catherine"s island they were creating independence from white control and an independent black community.
