 Because merchants refused to deliver provisions to blacks at Camp Lincoln, hesitated to serve blacks in town, or overcharged them when they did, the state purchased $10,000 (over $250,000 in 2018) worth of groceries to re-sell to blacks so they could have food.White men immediately galvanized around the notion of restricting blacks from voting.From 1890 to 1908 legislatures of southern states had passed new constitutions and laws that raised barriers to voter registration, effectively disenfranchising most blacks and excluding them from politics.