Frederick Douglass: “Everybody knows that what I say is true, and that no power is employed…”

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Everybody knows that what I say is true, and that no power is employed by the Government to prevent this lawless violence.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the truth of racial violence is widely acknowledged, yet the government fails to intervene.

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Frederick Douglass: “Everybody knows that what I say is true, and that no power is employed by the Government to prevent this lawless…”