If all the black land-owners who had ever held land here had kept it or left it in the hands of black men, the Negroes would have owned nearer thirty thousand acres than the fifteen thousand they now hold.
This statement reflects on the potential land ownership of Black individuals had they been given better opportunities post-Emancipation.
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