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I'll let you read the rest of its provisions--
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but the central compromise was actually on black suffrage.
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As I said, there was this uncomfortable fact that
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most white Northerners didn't want black people to vote, in the North.
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So they left any enforcement of the right to vote to the states.
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They're going to codify the right to vote for black males--
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and by the way it's the first time the word
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male got into the U.S. Constitution--
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a very complicated, important amendment,
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and it's going to cause a terrible explosion
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and actually a bad train wreck between the Women's Suffrage Movement
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and the old abolition movement, black and white men,