For example what under such a system is bad for a black man to do to a member of the white race might not be regarded as bad at all if done by a white man to a member of the black race.
He illustrates the hypocrisy in the legal standards applied to different races in the South.
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Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.
Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.