Use the Land Order to answer the question.
Describe how the Land Order relates to later Reconstruction policies toward free blacks in the South. Using the excerpt, answer (a) and (b).
(a) In 2-3 sentences, explain why most African Americans remained bound to the land after the war.
(b) In 2-3 sentences, describe how economic hopes inspired by the end of the war failed to materialize for many free blacks.
A Land Order from April 1, 1865 says the following: “No. 118 Office of the Superintendent of Freedmen In accordance with Major General Sherman’s Order, No. 15, permission is hereby granted to Richard Brown to take possession of and occupy forty acres of land, situated in St. Andrews Parish, Island of Jame’s [sic] and being part of what was formerly known as Heyward’s plantation. By order of, Brevet Major General RUFUS SAXTON. Gilbert Pillsbury Gov. and General Superintendent of Freedmen.”
