Why did many African Americans in the South not vote even after the passage of the 15th Amendment?
- They had little interest in politics.
- The Federal Government did not enforce the amendment.
- They boycotted elections to protest their lack of civil rights.
-They were not considered citizens, so they could not vote.
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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.

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