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The Great Black American Land Grab- Dawes Act

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After the Civil war the native americans and the freed slaves were given an "opportunity" to have ownership of land through the Dawes Act and the Homestead Act eventhough many officials were against the legal provision...
The story of One sountern family and their land acquisition and loss and retention is a facinating view of the dynamics of life in rural USA then and now

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