ELECTION DAY: While the confederate States are forced, by the federal government, to grant suffrage to freedmen, the Electorate of Connecticut rejects a State constitutional amendment to extend suffrage to its Citizens of African heritage.
[restored 4/23/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Connecticut Constitution, Article XII
ww.cga.ct.gov/asp/Content/constitutions/CTConstitution.htm
References:
James M McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, second edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), 501.
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