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Why is the Negro Lynched?
BY THE LATE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Reprinted by permission from "The A.M.E. Church Review" for Memorial Distribution, by a few of his English friends.
BRIDGWATER: PRINTED BY JOHN WHITBY AND SONS, LIMITED. 1895.
Copies can be obtained free from the Editor of "Anti-Caste," Street, Somerset, England.
Why is the Negro Lynched?
BY THE LATE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
THE AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE INDICTED ON A NEW CHARGE. INTRODUCTORY--THE WRITER'S CLAIM TO BE HEARD.
I propose to give you a coloured man's view of the so-called "Negro Problem." We have had the Southern white man's view of this subject at large in the press, in the pulpit and on the platform. He has spoken in the pride of his power and to willing ears. Coloured by his peculiar environments, his version has been presented with abundant repetition, with startling emphasis, and with every advantage to his side of the question. We have also had the Northern white man's view of the subject, tempered by his distance from the scene and by his different, if not his higher, civilization.
This quality and quantity of evidence, may be considered by some men as all sufficient upon which to found an intelligent judgment of the whole matter in controversy, and, therefore, it may be thought my testimony is not needed. But experience has taught us that it is sometimes wise and necessary to have more than two witnesses to bring out the whole truth. Especially is this the case where one of such witnesses has a powerful motive for suppressing or distorting the facts, as in this case. I therefore insist upon my right to take the witness stand and give my version of this Southern question, and though it shall widely differ from that of both the North and South, I shall submit the same to the candid judgment of all who hear me in full confidence that it will be received as true, by honest men and women of both sections of this Republic.
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