Occasional Papers, No. 11.
The American Negro Academy.
THE NEGRO AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
A SERIES OF PAPERS AND A SERMON BY
Archibald H. Grimké, Charles C. Cook, John Hope,John L. Love, Kelly Miller and Rev. Frank J. Grimké.
PRICE: THIRTY-FIVE CENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY.
1905.
CONTENTS
- The Meaning And Need Of The Movement To Reduce Southern Representation—ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKÉ
- The Penning of the Negro—CHARLES CHAUVEAU COOK
- The Negro Vote in the States Whose Constitutions Have Not Been Specifically Revised—JOHN HOPE
- The Potentiality of the Negro Vote, North and West—JOHN L. LOVE
- Migration and Distribution of the Negro Population as Affecting the Elective Franchise—KELLY MILLER
- The Negro and His Citizenship—FRANCIS J. GRIMKÉ
The Meaning And Need Of The Movement To Reduce Southern Representation—ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKÉ
In 1787 when the founders of the American Republic were framing theConstitution they encountered many difficulties in the work ofconstruction, but none greater than the bringing together on terms ofequality under one general government of the slave-holding and thenon-slave-holding states. The South was willing to enter the Unionprovided always that its peculiar labor and institutions receivedadequate protection in that instrument. And this the North had finallyto consent to incorporate into the organic law of the new nation. Oneof these concessions was known as the Slave Representation Clause of theConstitution, which gave to the Slave section the right to count fiveslaves as three freemen in the apportionment of representatives. Thisconcession did not probably seem at the time like an exorbitant orruinous price for the North to pay for the Union, but subsequent eventsproved it to be both exorbitant and ruinous in the political burdenwhich it imposed upon that section, and in the political perils whichgrew naturally out of the situa