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File:FreedmenVotingInNewOrleans1867.jpeg

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English: Jim Crow Laws "Freedmen Voting in New Orleans" 1867 engraving showing African Americans who hade been enslaved but a couple years later participating in election.
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Source 19th century illustration via New York Public Library Digital Collection at [1]
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