In the article: ------------------- Had Andrew Jackson not overturned the original reconstruction proposal for freed slaves to be given 40 acres and a mule as

In the article: ------------------- Had Andrew Jackson not overturned the original reconstruction proposal for freed slaves to be given 40 acres and a mule as reparation, instead of simply allowing them to earn wage labor on former slaveowners’ lands, we might be looking at a vastly less divided America today. ---------------------- Andrew Jackson was long dead. It was Andrew Johnson who rejected 40 acres and a mule. I guess those Tennessee presidents all sound alike.