The Northern people themselves were not yet ready for negro suffrage, and had the South promptly accepted the Fourteenth Amendment and the congressional plan of reconstruction, it is doubtful if the Fifteenth Amendment would have been heard of.
Alexander discusses the readiness of the Northern people for negro suffrage and the implications of the South's acceptance of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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