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funckydechunk [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

You didn't have to be white. You had to be a land owner.

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VolareVia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Exactly. There was still a sort of 'de facto' reason that blacks couldn't vote, because none of them were land owners, and beyond that, freeman who tried to buy land were regularly denied, but these social problems could have been resolved without removing the land ownership requirement.