Imagine this:
4.5 million Blacks in the US, at the end of the Civil War, 4 million were slaves and .5 million were indentured servants or already freed.
40 acres is equal to 0.0625 square miles.
So, 4.5 million Blacks (X) 0.0625 square miles = 281,250 square miles.
What does 281,250 square miles look like? The state of Texas is 268,596 square miles. All other states in the US are smaller than that number except Alaska which comes in at 665,384 square miles. Let that sink in folks! They owed the 4.5 million Blacks in the US, after the end of the Civil War, (collectively) the state of Texas and the panhandle of Oklahoma in land alone, not to mention 4.5 million mules ... take a minute and really let that sink in.
The country of Nigeria is 76K square miles larger than Texas. No wonder "40 acres and a mule" was rescinded ... they weren't about to give up all that land, nor risk Black folk actually pooling that land into one big area like say ... Texas.