Frederick Douglass: “He could issue no warrant on my word, against white persons; and, if I…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

He could issue no warrant on my word, against white persons; and, if I had been killed in the presence of a thousand blacks, their testimony, combined would have been insufficient to arrest a single murderer.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, this passage describes the legal powerlessness of enslaved people and free blacks in the face of white violence.

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Frederick Douglass: “He could issue no warrant on my word, against white persons; and, if I had been killed in the presence of a thousand…”

Editor's note · Context