Journal of the Convention, called by the freemen of North-Carolina, to amend the constitution of the state
Subtitle: which assembled in the city of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835, and continued in session until the 11th day of July thereafter
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Constitutional law; Constitutional history; Constitutional conventions; Representative government and representation; Free African Americans; Suffrage; Religion and state; Politics and government; North Carolina; North Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1835)
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Convention called in North Carolina to look at several issues in the previously approved Constitution for the state. Some of the issues were Representation of the districts based on the Census of 1820 and 1830, denial of voting for free African Americans, Mulattos or others of mixed blood to the fourth generation, tax on slaves and free African Americans as well as other issues and rewording of amendments. Each vote is followed by the names and counties of who voted yea or nay on an issue.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed November 6, 2002)

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Transcribed from: Journal of the Convention, called by the freemen of North-Carolina, to amend the constitution of the state, which assembled in the city of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835, and continued in session until the 11th day of July thereafter. Raleigh : Printed by J. Gales & Son, Printers to the Convention, 1835. 106, [2] p. ; 23 cm. Shaw & Shoemaker, 33403.

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