What was lincolns position on the issue of suffrage for african americans?

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What was lincolns position on the issue of suffrage for african americans?

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Beau Raymond · Answer 1

Only some African Americans should be able to vote

Aaliyah Jarvis · Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln believed that African Americans should be granted full citizenship. This included the right vote in elections. As a result, the question of suffrage for newly freed blacks became an important part of the President Lincoln's reconstruction program following the civil war