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Why couldn't free African Americans own guns in the south before the civil war?
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∙ 13y ago
Because the South had African American Slaves, and they worried that Freed African Americans with guns might start a revolt, similar to Nat Turners rebellion which resulted in the deaths of a lot of people who kept slaves.
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