Um, not true. The northern whites abolished slavery in 1777 in Vermont, 1781 in Mass, until by the early 1800s all Northern states abolished slavery. Senator Sumner got his head bashed in on the Senate floor by a South Carolina Senator because Sumner made a famous speech to abolish slavery. Blacks could vote in 9 out of 13 states in 1830. Blacks (feed blacks, 10 percent of the state's black population) were stripped of their vote in 1835 in North Carolina by a 66-61 close vote in the state legislature. Women were allowed to vote in New Jersey for a time around 1800. Non-landowners could certainly vote in many states and even new states like Kentucky. This supremacist ideology entered in to mainstream and textbooks starting in the early 1900s until everyone, especially in the South, where I've living for 20 years, repeats this phrase that "only male landowners could vote." Factually false and untrue. And blacks owned land and ships before and after the Revolutionary War, and one even built a schoolhouse with his own funds.

These false narratives you and most Americans repeat need to be taken out of history books. Hundreds of black soldiers fought in the Revolutionary War alongside whites and were given pensions up North. Slaves sued for their freedom starting in 1770, though America was not a country until 1776. I'm not "blaming" or contradicting you but the whole system including myself, just pointing out that until I started researching the facts, I lived under all false ideas for decades. We need to make changes so these false, non-factual stories stop being told.