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The beginning of the story : Black enfranchisement in the antebellum era

"The mind of Blacks are not competent to vote" : racial voting restrictions in New York

"An asylum for the oppressed injured sons of Europe" : disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania

"Servility is not confined to color" : disenfranchisement and re-enfranchisement in Rhode Island

"The vaunted superiority of the white race imposes corresponding duties" : Massachusetts and Black enfranchisement, the exception to the rule

Reconstructing the two reconstructions : race formation in the antebellum north and the nationalization of party politics.

African Americans > Suffrage > History > 19th century.

African Americans > History > To 1863.

African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century.

United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.