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  1. Jan 2023
    1. Susan B. Anthony,

      It is important to know that Susan was one of the people who was for women’s right to vote

    2. White southerners demanded that African American women work in the plantation home and instituted apprenticeship systems to place African American children in unpaid labor positions.

      The southerners had the audacity to request that black freed slaves still work at their plantation and have their kids work for free instead of allowing children to gain an education.

    3. One of the main purposes of the Freedmen’s Bureau, however, was to redistribute lands to formerly enslaved people that had been abandoned and confiscated by the federal government. Even these land grants were short-lived. In 1866, land that ex-Confederates had left behind was reinstated to them.

      I think this was very unfair the government gave land to newly freed people only to snatch it back to the original owners they had confiscated it from.