Lesson 7: Expanding Democracy by Alyson Nawrocki https://padlet.com/tufsd/os69w6adoymtgp4a Read the quote and reflect on what effects you think granting citizenship and the ability to vote to Black men will have on the lives of individual freed-people, the South, and the nation as a whole. en-us 2020-10-02 11:46:59 UTC 2025-08-22 22:54:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Quote anawrocki https://padlet.com/tufsd/os69w6adoymtgp4a/wish/3094157864 Never before in history had so large a group of emancipated slaves suddenly achieved political and civil rights. And the coming of black suffrage in the South in 1867 inspired a sense of possibility second only to emancipation itself. Former slaves now stood on equal footing with whites, declared a speaker at a mass meeting in Savannah; before them lay “a field, too vast for contemplation.” 


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