It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential Black electoral Politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage.
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Despite efforts to disfranchise them, Black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections.
Yet free Black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral Politics over the course of the early American republic.
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential Black electoral Politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage