40 Acres and a Mule: This term refers to the promise made during Reconstruction that each freed slave would receive 40 acres of land and a mule as compensation for their years of enslavement.
Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15: These were military orders issued by General William T. Sherman during the Civil War, which set aside coastal lands in Georgia and South Carolina for redistribution to freed slaves.
Sharecropping: Sharecropping was an agricultural system prevalent after Reconstruction where freed slaves (and poor whites) worked on plantations owned by others in exchange for a share of crops produced.