 very upset that their land was being taken away and given to these formerly enslaved people and a lot of them organized they wrote letters to the president you know petitioning the government saying that for this 40 acres program it's cruelly unjust it they just couldn't believe it and and really you know denigrating the the formerly enslaved people who have had this land now um in south carolina for example the state hired a lobbyist named william truscott who was