On the record
There is, to be sure, no law forbidding the selling of land to the colored people, but there is an understanding which has the full effect of law.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “There is, to be sure, no law forbidding the selling of land to the colored people, but there is an understanding which…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass notes the informal agreements that effectively prevent land sales to African Americans, despite the absence of legal prohibitions.
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