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.
Come to think of it, you're kinda right. The issue I'm describing is more one that blacks at the time often didn't own land. Some of that was a fallout of nasty policies, but I will say that trend was reversing before Jim Crow.
You didn't have to be white. You had to be a land owner.
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.
See, this isn't true. Not only were there black land owners, there were black slave holders.
Come to think of it, you're kinda right. The issue I'm describing is more one that blacks at the time often didn't own land. Some of that was a fallout of nasty policies, but I will say that trend was reversing before Jim Crow.