The only persons required to own property in order to enjoy suffrage and the right to hold office were negroes, who continued to rest under the ban until the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution.
This quote highlights the racial discrimination in suffrage laws that persisted until the adoption of the fifteenth amendment.
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