Presentation by Kristopher Hiser Forty Acres to Freedom and Back Again: Rufus Saxton’s Failed Attempt to Secure Property for Freedmen
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Presentation byKristopher Hiser
Forty Acres to Freedom and Back Again:
Rufus Saxton’s Failed Attempt to Secure Property for Freedmen
Labor claims vs. Title claims
The playersThe lawsSaxton’s viewSaxton’s oppositionThe outcome
The Agenda
Title and legal ownershipLabor claimsSpecial case of the freedmenBills of attainder
Property: The Sacred Right
Radical RepublicansBureau agentsNorthernersPresident Andrew Johnson
Who Was Who?
The LegislationTaxation Act
1862Second
Confiscation Act
Abandoned and
Confiscated Property
Acts
Sherman’s Field Order
15
Andrew Johnson’s Amnesty
Proclamation
“Unrequited Toil”
Port Royal ColonySherman’s Reservation
Saxton’s Efforts
Circular #13Circular #15
The Question Settled
Total South Carolina Virginia and North Carolina
Georgia and Mississippi, and Louisiana
Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Florida, Tennesee, and DC
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
900,000
854,950
369,700
112,100183,950 189,200
465,900
181,600
60,600 102,400 121,300139,53374,669
11,875 3,69049,299
Land Holdings of the Bureau1865 January 1866 1868
Saxton removed from the BureauCongress refocused efforts on the franchise
Outcome
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