Abstract:Most Black people who homesteaded in the Great Plains did so against the background of their bitter Black experience in the South. The Southern Homestead Act, passed in 1866, promised recently freed slaves and others the opportunity to homestead on public lands in five southern states. For freedpeople who were defeated in their efforts to gain ownership of plantation lands, the Southern Homestead Act seemed to be a possible avenue to Black landownership. Although some African Americans succeeded in gaining homesteaded land, most were unable to take advantage of the Southern Homestead Act because of their extreme poverty; the unsuitability of the lands available and difficulty of finding them; and the extreme hostility and violence that whites directed against them. The Southern Homestead Act was repealed in 1876, and Blacks turned their eyes toward homesteading in the Great Plains.

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非裔美国人和南部家园法案

摘要：大多数在大平原定居的黑人都是在南方痛苦的黑人经历的背景下这样做的。1866 年通过的《南方宅基地法》承诺最近获释的奴隶和其他人有机会在南部五个州的公共土地上建立宅基地。对于在争取种植园土地所有权的努力中失败的自由人来说，《南方家园法案》似乎是获得黑人土地所有权的可能途径。尽管一些非裔美国人成功地获得了宅基地，但大多数人由于极度贫困而无法利用《南方宅基地法》；可用土地的不适宜性和难以找到；以及白人对他们的极端敌意和暴力。1876 年废除了《南方宅地法》，