February 5th

On this day,

Radical Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania on this day in 1866 proposed in Congressional debate on the Freedmen’s Bureau the idea of continuing the practice that started during the war which allocated white confiscated lands to freed Africans after the Civil War.  Newly installed president Andrew Johnson, an ally of the Confederates, ensured that this policy did not become law.  It was the idea of Forty Acres and a Mule, which reasoned that the newly freed would need resources to live.

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