German Coast Uprising began / African American men secure the right to vote in D.C. - January 8th Flashback

On this day in 1811, the German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in modern-day Louisiana, began.

On this day in 1867, the U.S. Congress passed the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, granting African American men the right to vote for the first time in the nation’s history.

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