danielpalos
Diamond Member
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- #341
Simply being born in the US confers citizenship. Those laws were unConstitutional after 1808.Your confusing freeing slaves to getting citizenship rights. Being free and ending slavery did not mean they were given citizenship rights.Anyone born in the Union after 1808 was a citizen of the Union. The North was gradually emancipating their slave population, unlike the South.BECAUSE blacks and slaves were not seen as citizens there is no such 1808 constitution agreeing with you
BLACKS AND SLAVES DID NOT HAVE CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS UNTIL THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866