Speeches at the Constitutional Convention

Name: Speeches at the Constitutional Convention
Author: Robert Smalls

by Robert Smalls

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Speeches at the Constitutional Convention With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional Convention

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Charlene Taylor, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2020-11-03

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Public domain in the USA.

Description

Robert Smalls was an African American delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention of 1895. He argued against proposed restrictions on the franchise and against discriminatory provisions on miscegenation and interracial marriages, but lost.

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African Americans -- Suffrage South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1895)African Americans -- Politics and government E660

About the author

Robert Smalls

1839–1915

Born into slavery in South Carolina, he became one of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War and Reconstruction by seizing a Confederate ship and sailing it to Union lines. His later life was just as extraordinary, spanning military service, public office, and years in Congress.

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