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It was a very radical proposition, proposing to deal with these lands as public lands, and parcel them out into small homesteads among the poor of the South, black and white.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It was a very radical proposition, proposing to deal with these lands as public lands, and parcel them out into small…”
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Julian proposed a radical approach to land distribution in the South after the Civil War.
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