Freed people requested land purchase options, not government handouts

Evidence

Remarkably, with millions of Black Americans just weeks past being released from generational slavery, they did not seek a government “handout”—even though getting land that they’d worked in order to produce wealth for others could hardly be considered one. They simply asked for land to work until they could earn enough money to purchase it. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1340

Categorization

• SHARE: Useful rebuttal datum for anyone discussing reparations: freed Black Americans did not ask for cash transfers but for the right to buy land they had already worked — contradicting the ‘handout’ caricature.