Frederick Douglass: “With a few noble exceptions, just enough to prove the rule, the upper…”

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With a few noble exceptions, just enough to prove the rule, the upper classes of the South seem to be in full sympathy with the mob and its deeds.

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Frederick Douglass

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He points out the troubling complicity of the upper classes in the South with mob violence against Black individuals.

Frederick Douglass: “With a few noble exceptions, just enough to prove the rule, the upper classes of the South seem to be in full sympathy…”