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Frederick Douglass: “This protection is given to the vilest white criminal in the land.”

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This protection is given to the vilest white criminal in the land.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

Douglass points out the irony that even the worst criminals receive legal protections that are denied to others.

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