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False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio home goods William Hoffman was appointed toBrings to life the struggle for Black suffrage in nineteenth century Ohio In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the states nineteenth century restrictions on suffrage. Though ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ostensibly extended the franchise, state election laws still forced men of color into a perilous struggle for full citizenship. Ric S. Sheffield depicts their