On the record
In the South it is a part of the civil rights of men to do these things whenever they please.
Said by
Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “In the South it is a part of the civil rights of men to do these things whenever they please.”
Editor's note · Context
Here, Beecher points out the troubling acceptance of certain actions in Southern society that would be condemned in the North.
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