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Frederick Douglass: “If lynch law is in any case condemned by them, it is only condemned in one breath and excused in another.”

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If lynch law is in any case condemned by them, it is only condemned in one breath and excused in another.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass notes the hypocrisy in the condemnation of lynching, which is often followed by justifications.

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