The Most Sacred Right (2020)
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Frederick Douglas, a Fugitive Slave
As a fugitive slave, Frederick Douglas registered to vote. He paid the $1.50 poll tax. Massachusetts had a poll tax. In New England, black men voted pretty much all through the antebellum period.
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