 called 40 Acres and a Lie. This program takes off once again after Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, asked black folk, what can we do? They say, give us land, give us land. The program takes off. These 1,200 formerly enslaved people in the South in these three states that they researched for this documentary series get this land. But after former slavers and plantation owners cried foul, the government took the land back. Again, Andrew Johnson was responsible for that.