They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida north of the St. John’s River and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families and other Blacks then living in the area.
Shawn D. Rochester author of “The Black Tax” unpaid slave labor for 250 years and the economic impact is near between $50 to $97 trillion.
Black contractors did get prime or subprime on tearing down the Gator Bowl when the Jacksonville Jaguars came to town.
The city shall identify at least 20% of its work in its capital improvement projects during the annual budget submission which shall accomplish JSEB’s Program using set aside, prime contracting opportunities and subcontracting goals.
The city, though each department head shall commit in its budget to award at least 20% to its contract for services and non-construction contracts to JSEB’S provided, however, that such awards shall apply with local state and federal law and that there exists certified JSEB’S to perform the work.
