Several early states granted free Black residents equal voting rights

Evidence

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, in some states (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and North Carolina) all free-born inhabitants, even though descended from African slaves, possessed the right of franchise of electors on equal terms with other citizens. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1384

Categorization

• XREF: Directly rebuts the majority’s ‘all state legislatures’ premise from location 1381 — the factual anchor for the fallacy. — connects to: Colored persons possessed voting rights in several original states during founding — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 494; French colonial law originally granted freed people full citizenship without racial distinction; Free-colored military service justified their claim to Republican citizenship (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1384

Broader Connections

• Colored persons possessed voting rights in several original states during founding #corroborates (0.90) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 494
• The slave uprising drove France to grant political rights to free-coloreds #corroborates (0.45) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 443