All 11 Uses
suffrage
in
The Souls of Black Folk
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- The alternative thus offered the nation was not between full and restricted Negro suffrage; else every sensible man, black and white, would easily have chosen the latter.†
Chpt 2suffrage = right to vote
- It was rather a choice between suffrage and slavery, after endless blood and gold had flowed to sweep human bondage away.†
Chpt 2 *
- Thus Negro suffrage ended a civil war by beginning a race feud.†
Chpt 2
- It came to regard its work as merely temporary, and Negro suffrage as a final answer to all present perplexities.†
Chpt 2
- Nearly all the former ones had become leaders by the silent suffrage of their fellows, had sought to lead their own people alone, and were usually, save Douglass, little known outside their race.†
Chpt 3
- He is striving nobly to make Negro artisans business men and property-owners; but it is utterly impossible, under modern competitive methods, for workingmen and property-owners to defend their rights and exist without the right of suffrage.†
Chpt 3
- They acknowledge Mr. Washington's invaluable service in counselling patience and courtesy in such demands; they do not ask that ignorant black men vote when ignorant whites are debarred, or that any reasonable restrictions in the suffrage should not be applied; they know that the low social level of the mass of the race is responsible for much discrimination against it, but they also know, and the nation knows, that relentless color-prejudice is more often a cause than a result of the Negro's degradation; they seek the abatement of this relic of barbarism, and not its systematic encouragement and pampering by all agencies of social power from the Associated Press to the Church of Christ.†
Chpt 3
- If such a peon should run away, the sheriff, elected by white suffrage, can usually be depended on to catch the fugitive, return him, and ask no questions.†
Chpt 8
- In the attitude of the American mind toward Negro suffrage can be traced with unusual accuracy the prevalent conceptions of government.†
Chpt 9
- In the fifties we were near enough the echoes of the French Revolution to believe pretty thoroughly in universal suffrage.†
Chpt 9
- It was at this time that the question of Negro suffrage in the South was raised.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(suffrage) the right to vote
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)