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American History Tellers
The Legend of Conan O'Brien
Black Republicans worked side-by-side with southern white Republicans and northern transplants to create the bylaws for their new state governments. Robert Smalls a formerly enslaved man who had captured the north's attention in 1862 served on a committee that passed a proposal for universal free public education. The conventions all drafted modern progressive constitutions that guaranteed black civil and political rights All ten former Confederate states created the south's first public school systems eight states abolished imprisonment for debt While six abolished property qualifications for running for office nine states recognized the right of married women to own property Georgia abolished whipping as a punishment and every southern state enacted universal male suffrage Regardless of race putting them ahead of even most northern states a year
