Amendment 15

Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--

Section 2.

The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

 

Five years after freedom, freed slaves finally receive the right to vote with this amendment.

 

 

Freed slaves could now vote.

 

Even though freed slaves, no citizens were given the right to vote, voting was still for representatives that would not represent them.