On the record
In the Southern States to-day a landlord system is in operation which keeps the negroes of that section in rags and wretchedness, almost to the point of starvation.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the dire economic conditions faced by African Americans in the Southern states.
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