The South might, under the Fourteenth Amendment, grant to the negroes the right to vote but upon conditions wholly impracticable and thus have secured their full representation in Congress at the same time that the voting power was retained in the hands of the white race.
Boutwell discusses the implications of the Fourteenth Amendment on voting rights for African Americans in the South.
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