Weatherall · 2w nope. nothing about the civil war changed anything for the already extant and ONLY citizenship class of the Free White State Citizen. the 14th Amendment provided a new and congressionally-OWNED cla... ๐โ๐ผ ๐๐๐ป๐ป๐๐โ @๐โ๐ผ ๐๐๐ป๐ป๐๐โ 1775826715 So if they are independent why can't they leave? If we & black people are free why do we pay half of our money to the Government & get nothing in return?