JD, who was General William T. Sherman employed by? As usual you are wrong again. It was more than just a promise. Andrew Johnson tried to change what Sherman started. Here's the point JD. Did the Irish pick cotton along with other enslaved black people? Did the Homestead act (which was an official US government policy) apply to Irish people or just freed blacks who had been forced into slavery?
The Irish have had some tough moments in their history. They did not have the same experience as the black people who came over in the "Triangle Trade" and were forced into slavery.
There are three subjects you should not be teaching at the school you say you teach at. That would be Finance, Science or HISTORY!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule
Originally Posted by adav8s28
Sherman was not authorized by congress to make such an offer. Did you study your history? No one said anything about the Irish and Africans having similar experiences. That is your conceit showing. The Irish, the Chinese, the Poles, Catholics, Jews, Russians, the Southerners, the Carpetbaggers, the French, the Italians, the Serbs, etc. everyone has been enslaved including white Europeans. Everyone has been shit on and some time.
Ask yourself how some groups have risen above it (Jews, Asians in general, etc.) and have been successful after climbing out of the shit. Why do some people lay in the shit and just complain rather than get up?