Frederick Douglass: “It says to the lynchers and mobocrats of the South, go on in your…”

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It says to the lynchers and mobocrats of the South, go on in your hellish work of Negro persecution.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass addresses the violent implications of racial persecution in the South.

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Frederick Douglass: “It says to the lynchers and mobocrats of the South, go on in your hellish work of Negro persecution.”