I've Been Here All the WhilePerhaps 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, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth century Indian Territory (modern day Oklahoma), a story