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It is a crime that places him outside of the pale of the law, and settles upon his shoulders a mantle of wrath and fire, that blisters and burns into his very soul.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is a crime that places him outside of the pale of the law, and settles upon his shoulders a mantle of wrath and fire…”
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Douglass highlights the severe consequences of being labeled a criminal in society.
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