On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
His bare word would go further in a court of law, than the united testimony of ten thousand black witnesses.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “His bare word would go further in a court of law, than the united testimony of ten thousand black witnesses.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass illustrates the profound racial inequality within the legal system of the slaveholding South.
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