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Sherman's Special Field Orders offered each freed family 40 acres and a mule, not the white southerners. I'm not aware of widespread white slavery in the pre-Civil war US, therefore, the orders really only talk about the slaves we all picture. It's these orders people cite when commonly discussing reparations. Still, this is less about committed obligation and more about justice. The social inequality reparations were supposed to help fix still exist, albeit in a different incarnation.
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