You mean if the land taken from the native Americans that was sold African Americans, wasn’t acquired by NY? At least the forced acquisition has a veneer of leg

You mean if the land taken from the native Americans that was sold African Americans, wasn’t acquired by NY? At least the forced acquisition has a veneer of legal and public good. But to speculate on your question, i strongly doubt that finding yourself owning prime land years after purchasing it translates to multi generation wealth. Yes the lives of those families would be better if they sold and did something useful with the money. I suspect mostly it would be wasted away, mismanaged and wilted down thru inheritance, that’s my observation from personal observation of how much land wealth my x*grandfather had compared to my parents