These were "free black men." If they owned enough property to qualify to vote, they voted. In Virginia alone there were about 5,000 of them. And the supreme irony to the Jackson screed is that the property most owned which permitted them to vote, was slaves.
Of course the correct way to approach any public pronouncement on any subject by His Indescribable Holiness, the Right Reverend Jesse Jackson, is this: Assume that he is lying, and look for the way that he is making money from each particular scam.
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