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wrenchwench10/05/2018 12:47:16 pm PDT

re: #204 KGxvi

Unmarried, property owning women could vote in at least some states, I believe. New Jersey even allowed married women to vote, until 1807. The ban on married women voting was, at least as I’ve read, based on the idea that they’d just vote the same as their husbands. A few states (4, I think), allowed free black men to vote. And white men who didn’t own property were often prohibited from voting as well, at least until about the 1850s.

The history of voting rights in the US is rather complicated and, while we eventually got it (mostly) right, not exactly as enlightened as our founding documents would suggest.

The struggle to become human has been long, and it is not over.