In your Laboratory of Politics essay on Volantis, you claim that the city’s ban on freedmen voting passes down to their children, but do not provide a direct citation. Would you be so kind to explain your rationale? IMO, such a ban goes against the historical analogies you cite and threatens to undermine political stability as the sub-class of empowered but disenfrancised freedmen class emerges. Given Volantis’ longevity, I feel there has to be a naturalization process.

My rationale is this:

1. Volantis is a slave state with extremely high levels of slaveholding, and an extreme paranoia about slave revolts. 

2. the Old Blood restrict office-holding to bar the children of freedmen.

3. the Old Blood restrict parts of the city to bar the children of freedmen.

4. According to the World of Ice and Fire, the freedmen (and presumably their children) live on the western bank, where according to WOIAF “”precious few voters west of the river.”

Thus, it seems likely to me that the city’s ban continues. 

To give a historical analogy, the children of freedmen weren’t allowed to vote in the antebellum South.