I have shown that during all the years of reconstruction, when he was being murdered at Hamburg, Yazoo, New Orleans, Copiah and elsewhere, he was never accused at that time of the crime now charged against him.
Douglass notes that during the Reconstruction era, Black individuals were not accused of crimes despite widespread violence against them.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
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