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Albert Beveridge: “Also suffrage was limited to white freeholders; and this restriction was made more onerous by the fact that county…”

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Also suffrage was limited to white freeholders; and this restriction was made more onerous by the fact that county representation was based on slave as well as free population.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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This statement addresses the limitations on suffrage in Virginia, emphasizing the racial and property restrictions of the time.

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