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Excerpt from Ex-Slave Pension Frauds
BY walter L. Fleming. Professor of History in the Louisiana State University.
Next to the forty acres and a mule swindle* the slave pension schemes have drawn more hard earned dollars from the ex-slaves than any other of the numerous frauds perpetrated on them. Unlike the forty acres and a mule swindle, which was contrary to the interests of the Southern whites and was therefore opposed by them, the pension fraud owes much of its success to the fact that influential Southern whites have favored slave pensions and have spoken or written or introduced bills in Congress to secure them, and numerous Camps of Confederate Veterans have pro posed or endorsed the pensioning of faithful slaves. So the old negroes have felt that, after all the promises made, something surely was due them.
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