[Ads-l] "Forty Acres and a Mule" (Not in OED)

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forty acres and a mule (not in OED)

1867 Greenville (Ala.) Advocate 8 Aug. 2/5 (Newspapers.com)

The Autauga wire workers have been keeping the negroes together by promising forty acres and a mule.

Fred Shapiro

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