Frederick Douglass: “The guilt of a slave was always and everywhere presumed, and the…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

The guilt of a slave was always and everywhere presumed, and the innocence of the slaveholder, or employer, was always asserted.

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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass describes the inherent bias of the legal system against enslaved people.

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