Speeches at the Constitutional Convention

Full title

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

Language

en

Duration

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

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

Rights

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.