from the black people it was promised to, and gave it to the slaveholders who had owned it before. So the promise of forty acres was never delivered upon, leaving black people with nothing to start their newly liberated lives. While the Supreme Court refused to hear this case from North Carolina, similar laws are currently in placeacross the countryAccording toNPR if the average wealth held by white families stopped growing, it would take 228 years for the average wealth held by African Americans to catch up, if it continues to grow at the same pace it has over the last 30 years. IN addition, the racial wealth divide between Black (and Latino) households and White households increased from about $280,000 in 1983 to over $500,000 in 2013. wasn’t fully free from British colonization until 1966