What if Black Americans actually got their forty acres and a mule ? Spoiler ? The US economy would not look the same today After slavery ended in eighteen sixty five, the US promised freed black people forty acres and a mule. It wasn't charity, it was owed. But within months that promise was revoked by President Andrew Johnson. Now let's talk numbers roughly four million freed people. If each family got forty acres, that's about one one hundred and fifty million acres of land. Fast forward to today. Farmland averages three thousand eight hundred dollars per acre. That's over five hundred and seventy billion dollars in wealth, not including inflation, natural resources or property value. Meanwhile, white settlers got free land through programs like the Homestead Act. That wealth grew. Black Americans were locked out and pushed into sharecropping poverty and redlining. This isn't about handout, it's. It's about a debt that was promised, stolen and never repaid. So when they say that was a long time ago, remind them. So was the theft. Follow for more history they don't want you to know. Share, believe, inspire blacks, be.