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Originally Posted by rob
Ok, I was misinformed on this portion of it. Thanks for letting us all know when the Norh became concerned about human rights. You know that even though they abolished it up north, why didn't they give more rights to the former slaves and women?
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Actually at the time the Constitution was ratified, there were free blacks living in the North who had voting rights. At one time or another, following the Revolution, free black men could vote in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Over time the right to vote was either abolished or greatly restricted for blacks in some of these states.
Many northern states used to have laws that restricted how many blacks could live in them, what kind of property they could own and what kind of jobs they could have. But, remember the Northern states are the ones that proposed the 13th, 14th and 15 Amendments.