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Originally Posted by sopas ej
And apparently, when the US was created, only men who were property owners could vote, and that included free blacks who owned property. It wasn't until slavery was abolished in 1865 in the US that conditions were created to discourage/prevent blacks from voting.
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I don't think that first part is true. Black people weren't considered citizens of the United States until after the Civil War. Individual states could have had their own rules that enfranchised black men for non-federal elections, though. States had/have a lot of leeway on how they conduct elections.