Whitelaw Reid: “Under the Constitution of 1776, free negroes, having the requisite…”

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Under the Constitution of 1776, free negroes, having the requisite qualifications, voted as freely as any other portion of the voting population.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid reflects on the historical voting rights of free negroes in the context of post-Civil War America.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Under the Constitution of 1776, free negroes, having the requisite qualifications, voted as freely as any other portion…”