On the record
If there were no other grievance than this horrible and barbarous Lynch law custom, we should be justified in assembling, as we have now done, to expose and denounce it.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If there were no other grievance than this horrible and barbarous Lynch law custom, we should be justified in…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass argues that the existence of lynch law is a sufficient reason for protest and condemnation.
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