Freed Slaves Registering to Vote, Virginia, 1870

Registration of black male voters during the first municipal election in Richmond, Virginia after the end of the Civil War. Illustration by William Ludwell Sheppard for Harper's Weekly, June 4, 1870

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Amendment Blacks Equal Eras Fifteenth Freed Reform Registering Registration Richmond Slaves Voter Voting

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