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Video: Episode 3 – “Into the Fire” PBS

questions:

What is the significance of the term “40 acres and a mule”? Where does it come from?

Why didn’t formerly enslaved people (freed slaves) get the land titles they were promised?

How did formerly enslaved people (freed slaves) try to reunite their families?

After African-Americans won the right to vote, which states soon held elected Black officials?

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .