Between Freedom and Bondage

<p><em>Between Freedom and Bondage </em>looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the antebellum North using the four states of New York Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. In each of these states a different outcome was obtained for blacks in their quest to share the vote. By analyzing the various outcomes of state struggles Malone offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution and the end of the Civil War. </p>