VI. sec. 2. and of Rhode Island. 1842. art. II. sees. I and 2). It was not an established right in law. in 1842. that a person having African blood in his veins could be a citizen of the United States. he could not become such by naturalization. as the law restricted naturalization to white men. Free persons of color a were denied the right to vote in New Jersey. by act of assembly. in 1807. in Tennessee. by the constitution of 1834. in North Carolina. by constitutional amendment. in 1835. in Pennsylvania. by the constitution of 1838. Thus. of the States that originally allowed them the right.
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