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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 4A



14. J. W. Wood, “The Enfranchisement of the Negro: No Blunder,” Independent (August 27, 1903): 2021-24.


Endorsement of black suffrage following the Civil War based on the assumption that the ballot was the only instrument African Americans had to protect themselves from attempts to re-enslave them. “The worst condition in which a person could be placed is that of being a slave without an owner. With an owner he has some protection.”