And that led to the establishment of Jim Crow, things like poll taxes, literacy tests, all-white primaries, grandfather clauses, property requirements.
The taxes which it is intended should fall indifferently upon every different species of revenue, are capitation taxes, and taxes upon consumable commodities.
Serjeants, attorneys, and proctors at law, who, in the first poll-tax, were assessed at three shillings in the pound of their supposed income, were afterwards assessed as gentlemen.
At first, both those poll-taxes and those exemptions seem to have been altogether personal, and to have affected only particular individuals, during either their lives, or the pleasure of their protectors.
And not just - it didn't just get rid of those literacy tests and poll taxes, but federal officials were sent to the South to register Black voters for the first time.
However, things did improve for the poor as the rebellion had frightened the rich, and they realized they could not push commoners too far. No government collected a poll tax until 1990.
The only way we're ever going to have equal rights in America is if we get rid of the modern day literacy tests and poll taxes that dominate our courts and legal system.
Capitation taxes, so far as they are levied upon the lower ranks of people, are direct taxes upon the wages of labour, and are attended with all the inconveniencies of such taxes.