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To: PeaRidge

Certainly North Carolina eliminated freedmen and their decendents from voting from 1835 to 1865. That was a shameful state choice, for which I condemn them.


204 posted on 04/05/2012 1:57:03 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: donmeaker
“North Carolina eliminated freedmen and their decendents (sic) from voting”.

It was a common practice, even in the North. See below.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/topic.php?nm=african_americans&rec=1

211 posted on 04/09/2012 12:43:04 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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