On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The criminal was always dumb--and no slave was allowed to testify, other than against his brother slave.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The criminal was always dumb--and no slave was allowed to testify, other than against his brother slave.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass explains the legal system on a slave plantation, where enslaved individuals were denied the right to speak or testify in their own defense.
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