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Frederick Douglass: “I have shown that its sole aim is to execute, not to find a true verdict.”

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I have shown that its sole aim is to execute, not to find a true verdict.
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Frederick Douglass
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He states that the primary goal of mobs is to punish rather than to seek a fair verdict.

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