The wrongs inflicted under the name of law, thus far recited, were still further aggravated in a majority of the rebellious States by the exaction of taxes from the colored man to an amount altogether disproportionate to their property.
Blaine discusses the unfair taxation imposed on African Americans in the Southern states after the Civil War.
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