Blac Disfranchisement Thesis Statement

they thought was their own country. Through enacting the black laws they had built against the black race. They demonstrated the racism that still existed. The black laws were based on “a general belief that each ethnic and racial group had its own inherent spirit that set it apart from others” (Hine 172). Black laws demanded the requirements “that African Americans entering the state produce legal evidence that they were free, register with a county clerk, and post a five hundred bond” (Hine 173). Though they were rarely enforced they still caused the effect that the white race wanted. This was insecureness in the black race that served as a reason, for them to depart. Other black laws that were hardly enforced were the prohibiting of “black testimony against white people,

Due to that the opposition towards this was heavily influenced. There was, also the denying of voting for women. There was the use of “property qualifications to prevent poor black and white men from voting” (Hine 174). Ensuring the denying of voting to black people, since most of the black community was poor and would never gain enough profit to demonstrate they were capable of voting. Stripping them from their legal right to vote, no matter what circumstances money wise they were in. Due to “the egalitarian movement to remove property qualifications” (Hine 174) the disfranchisement began. According to white race voters the allowing of the black race vote would corrupt the system. Since they “would be encouraged to try to mix socially with white people” (Hine 174). Due to that there was the threat that the voting of the black race would position them in the election to office. Demonstrating the racism there still was. And the unequalness of freedom that African Americans had. Since all the rights they were entitled to were denied to them. Making them feel that the freedom they were enjoying of wasn’t