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A letter written by a free African-American Union soldier argues for equal pay for African-American soldiers.

Sherman’s Order is the source of the phrase, “forty acres and a mule,” a believed promise for land redistribution to former enslaved people.

The text is a letter from J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association written in 1918.

In her speech, Davis calls the people to deeply reflect about American patriotism, the lie that is rooted within this concept. She calls people to make the connection between the Vietnam war, the oppression of Black and Brown people and the exploitation of white workers in the United States.