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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The intent of the Homestead Act of 1862 [24] [25] was to reduce the cost of homesteading under the Preemption Act; after the South seceded and their delegates left Congress in 1861, the Republicans and supporters from the upper South passed a homestead act signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, which went into effect on Jan. 1st, 1863.

  3. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the same year the U.S Congress passed the Morill Act of 1862. Also referred to as the land Grant Act, the Morill Act of 1862 was meant to offer land grants to whites-only colleges that taught agriculture and mechanical courses. In addition, Congress also passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which legalized the acquisition of land in the West.

  4. Homesteading by African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups.

  5. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a United States federal law intended to offer land to prospective farmers, white and black, in the South following the American Civil War. It was repealed in 1876 after mostly benefiting white recipients.

  6. History of slavery in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina Historical Review 63.1 (1986): 1–39. online; Minchinton, Walter E. "The Seaborne Slave Trade of North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 71.1 (1994): 1–61. online; Modlin Jr, E. Arnold. "Tales told on the tour: Mythic representations of slavery by docents at North Carolina plantation museums."

  7. Bennett Place - Wikipedia

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    Bennett Place is a former farm and homestead in Durham, North Carolina, which was the site of the last surrender of a major Confederate army in the American Civil War, when Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to William T. Sherman. The first meeting (April 17, 1865) saw Sherman agreeing to certain political demands by the Confederates, which were ...

  8. Homestead Exemption: What It Means and How To Qualify - AOL

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    A homestead exemption is a legal mandate. It helps protect a home from seizure by creditors following a declaration of bankruptcy or the death of a spouse with ownership interest.

  9. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    The result was the Southern Homestead Act, which opened 46,398,544.87 acres of land in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to homesteading; initially 80-acre parcels (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter 160-acre parcels (quarter section). Johnson signed this bill and it went into effect on June 21, 1866.

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