Qualified Colored Electors - Rockbridge County, 1867

Larry Spurgeon (2020)

After the Civil War, federal law set out a procedure for Confederate states to be readmitted - and that included adopting a new constitution that outlawed slavery, among other things. In 1867, an election was held in Virginia to select delegates to a state constitutional convention. Black men age 21 and older, who had been residents of a county for at least one year, were qualified to vote. In Rockbridge County, nearly 1,000 Black men registered to vote. This spreadsheet lists them by name and district.