(CIVIL RIGHTS SUFFRAGE) SMITH JAMES MCCUNE The Suffrage Que

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--SUFFRAGE.) SMITH, JAMES MCCUNE. The Suffrage Question in Relation to Colored Voters in New York. Single small 4to leaf, folded to form four pages, printed on all four; paper evenly toned; professional archival paper repair to what forms the "spine." New York: The New York City and County Suffrage Committee of Colored Citizens, [1859]

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A rare flyer from the colored citizens of New York, signed in type by James McCune Smith, one of the leaders of the community. The authors of the flyer are proposing an Amendment to the New York Constitution to allow men of color to vote in the November 1860 election. The writers point out that according to the Constitution of 1777, all male citizens of the state had the right to vote. rare, oclc locates only four copies.