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1860 New York suffrage referendum

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areas that had most stridently supported suffrage also tended to have lower concentrations of Black residents, as well as having little history with slavery (which had been concentrated in the Hudson Valley and New York City when it was legal). These trends had been similar in the 1846 referendum on suffrage.
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Using township level data, opponents of suffrage were correlated with higher amounts of Dutch Reformed adherents (mostly located along the Hudson Valley) as well as Irish and German immigrants (mostly located in New York City). Proponents tended to be evangelicals and those of New England birth. The
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men 21 years of age and older should be introduced. At the time, Black voters were required to meet certain property-owning criteria. Black men who owned the required amount of property could still vote in the state, and many did vote in the referendum.
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The referendum question failed, with 64% voting against the change, and property restrictions to vote were maintained for Black voters.
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of New York City, as well as most of the area around the city, voted against the proposed amendment.
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The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era
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The referendum was most heavily supported by voters in Upstate New York. The
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Hanes Walton Jr, Sherman Puckett, Donald R Deskins Jr
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New York
suffrage
Black
Five Boroughs
New York state election, 1860
Universal suffrage
Constitution of New York
"Archived copy"
Archived
cite web
link
The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era
doi
10.7591/j.ctv2n7f2t.8?seq=2
ISBN
978-0-8014-1408-4
Categories
1860 referendums
Referendums in the United States
1860 in New York (state)
Suffrage referendums
African-American history of New York (state)
Pre-emancipation African-American history
History of African-American civil rights

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