AMERICA WAS NOT FOUNDED BY WHITES

When Black Voting Rights Ran Rampant

Table 3.5 Voting Rights, Population, and Population Change of African Americans in the Thirteen Original Colonies in the Colonial Era [From Reference Source Below]

Horrible to find out black free women lost their right to vote in New Jersey in 1806.

According to the 1755, the free Black men could still vote, thank goodness. That didn’t stop. The right to vote for blacks was not denied in the 150 years of development leading up to the Revolutionary War — in 10 of the 13 states.

Only three states acted against freed blacks. Virginia took away the right to vote from black women in 1699 but left the right to vote for black men until 1723. I expected that about black men from another source that has spoken on black disenfranchisement. South Carolina was the first, it appears, to strip away black voting rights in 1714 by creating the explicit “white” political construct to take away the right to participate in the society and stakeholders in the government.

When you read the details from studies like this thoroughly researched book, “The African-American Electorate”, 2012, such eye-opening ideas reveal a different country leading up to the American Revolution than we’ve been taught as children, as probably still are.

Just think of this last concept “stakeholder.” This one (p.61) jumped out at me. I had not considered or known the very concept, which is true. Freed blacks, everywhere in almost every county of the 13…