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During all this time there was no call for Miss Willard’s pity, or for Bishop Haygood’s defence of burning Negroes to death, but killing Negroes went on all the same.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass criticizes the lack of concern for Black lives amidst the violence, contrasting it with the calls for pity for white individuals.
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