Frederick Douglass: “Their testimony in the case of any other people than the Negro would…”

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Their testimony in the case of any other people than the Negro would be instantly and utterly discredited, and why not the same in this case?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass points out the hypocrisy in discrediting testimony against other groups while accepting it against Black individuals.

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