On the record
A white man has but to blacken his face and commit a crime to have some Negro lynched in his stead.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “A white man has but to blacken his face and commit a crime to have some Negro lynched in his stead.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass illustrates the extreme injustice where a white man can escape punishment by framing a Black man.
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