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What If America Had Kept Its 40 Acres Promise to the Formerly Enslaved? $7.6M Part 2
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What if the families who were promised forty acres and a mule had kept their land? Part 2 of this alternate history follows one imagined family on Edisto Island, South Carolina, from 1866 into the 1950s, and then it runs the numbers on what Sherman's land would be worth today.
The family is invented and the episode says so, while the island, the year and the land title are real. Along the way…