Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The First Settlers of Indian Territory
Chapter 2. Emancipation and Intervention
Chapter 3. Whose Racial Paradise?
Chapter 4. The Last Wave
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments