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Frederick Douglass: “Any white man is authorized to stop a man of color, on any road, and examine him, and arrest him, if he so desires.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Any white man is authorized to stop a man of color, on any road, and examine him, and arrest him, if he so desires.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, Douglass describes the legal vulnerability of Black individuals, even free ones, in the antebellum South.

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