Title: Journal of the Convention, called by the freemen of North-Carolina, to amend the constitution of the state
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.
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)
Places: North Carolina
Time periods: 1775-1865