On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient to have arrested one of the murderers.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass highlights the profound legal inequality and lack of protection for Black individuals, even in cases of murder, due to the invalidation of their testimony.
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