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The situation may be the better understood when I add that “negro testimony”—the introduction to the courts of law of the newly made freedmen as witnesses—barred by the state constitution, was the burning issue.
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Watterson highlights the significant legal barriers faced by freedmen in the post-Civil War South.
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