...Fifty farms in Touraine, amounting to five hundred acres... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Thus, no one will cultivate more than is absolutely necessary, as he dreads the difficulties that broad acres of waving crops would entail upon his family...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...
The palaces of this country generally consistof a perfect square wall, containing from two toforty acres of land, or more; for the imperialpalace at Mequinas covers about two squaremiles of ground...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...We walked thus about a mile and a half when we came out upon an open space, some ten acres in extent, through which the path ran...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...Therailroad station and store-houses are close to the river bank, and,spread over several acres of cinders, are the railroad yard andmachine shops...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...He affirms, that his countrymen were promised fifty acres of land, each, in Sierra Leone, on condition of relinquishing the land already in their possession in Nova Scotia...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...The United Statesgovernment was seriously considering the distribution of land andcapital—"40 acres and a mule"—and the price of cotton opened an easyway to economic independence...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
... Bill Smith, Bill Hughes, and myself, were the working force of the farm, which consisted of three or four hundred acres...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...We kept at the work each afternoon, until we had cleared about twenty acres and had planted a crop...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...By 1875the Negroes probably had gotten hold of something between 2,000,000and 4,000,000 acres of land through their bounties as soldiersand the low price of land after the war...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...By 1880 this was increasedto about 6,000,000 acres; in 1890 to about 8,000,000 acres; in 1900to over 12,000,000 acres...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...In 1910 this land had increased to nearly20,000,000 acres, a realm as large as Ireland...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...Old Gen'ral Cresswell had niggers and acres no end back dere in Carolina...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Cresswell has offered me forty acres of good land...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Huge bonfires blazed and crackled, until at last a wide black scar appeared in the thick south side of the swamp, which widened and widened to full twenty acres...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...We want to keep this hundred acres for the public good, and not sell it...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Cresswell and asked him to sell me two hundred acres of land...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...The Dismal Swamps cover many thousand acres of wild land, and a dense forest, with wild animals and insects such as are unknown in any other part of Virginia...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
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