Frederick Douglass: “But this excuse is not employed by the lynchers, though it is…”

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But this excuse is not employed by the lynchers, though it is sometimes so employed by those who apologise for the lynchers.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass points out that the lynchers themselves do not use the excuse of potential escape.

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Frederick Douglass: “But this excuse is not employed by the lynchers, though it is sometimes so employed by those who apologise for the…”