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40 acres and a mule. A promise, with no basis in fact, made by dishonest politicians to newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Each freed slave, they said, would receive 40 acres of land and a mule to work it with. “When we were children we used to ridicule the slogan ‘forty acres and a mule’ as a stupid decep- tion used by the Yankees to get the black men to vote for the Republicans,” wrote Katherine Lumpking in The Making of a Southerner (1947). See also hold the fort. |