 After the Civil War, Lincoln, President Lincoln asked black folk, what can we do? And they said, give us land, give us land. And there were about 1,200 formerly enslaved people in the South who under the 40 acres and a mule program did in fact receive land. But after, you know the story didn't stop there, right? After the former enslavers and plantation owners started crying a foul, the government took back the land. Lincoln is assassinated.