Frederick Douglass: “His bare word would go further in a court of law, than the united…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

His bare word would go further in a court of law, than the united testimony of ten thousand black witnesses.

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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass illustrates the profound racial inequality within the legal system of the slaveholding South.

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