.  According to that interpretation, only the families and the descendants of the men pictured were citizens. It says we, the people. It doesn't say We, the white people.  No, it doesn't. But every single immigration and naturalizaton act of the U.S.A. up until after the Civil War made it perfectly clear that only free WHITE men of good moral standing were eligible for American citizenship. No indentured servants, no slaves and no non-Whites of any kind. What part of free WHITE men don't you people understand?     The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to aliens who were   free white persons   and thus  left out  indentured servants, slaves,  free African-Americans ,  and later Asian Americans .   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790    List of immigration acts in the U.S.   https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t481792/