Posted Apr 27, 2021, 4:17 PM
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Originally Posted by eschaton
In states where black people were eligible to vote they could vote in all elections, whether federal, state, or local.
That said, my understanding is free blacks only had the right to vote at certain times in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. And in the case of NJ and PA, it was actually revoked in 1807 and 1838 respectively. Meaning New York was the only state that had a continual history of black suffrage (for black men who owned property anyway).
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Makes sense. Even today, national elections are really just 50 coordinated state elections.
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