I don’t believe any children of slaves ran for president. Victoria Woodhull wanted Frederick Douglass to be her running mate, but she wasn’t a serious candidate, and couldn’t even vote herself. If I were around back then I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell Douglass that he wasn’t a first-class native born citizen.
By this and your previous reply, one would get the impression that you think the law stopped doing anything after 1868.
If I were around back then I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell Douglass that he wasn’t a first-class native born citizen.
I have been impressed with the intellect manifested in what I have read of Douglass' writings. I don't think he could have gotten around the natural born citizen requirement even if he could get around the racial animosity in that time period.