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An essay examining the epidemic of lynching and mob violence directed against Black people, arguing that mobs substitute for law, that accusations—particularly of assaults on white women—are often rumor-driven and used to justify extrajudicial murder, and that respectable classes and officials frequently tolerate or endorse such violence. The author challenges prevailing narratives, disputes claims about Black criminality, documents the lawlessness and brutality of mobs, and calls for legal protection, public accountability, and moral reform to safeguard rights and restore justice.

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Title: Why is the Negro Lynched?

Author: Frederick Douglass

Release date: March 24, 2019 [eBook #59116]

Language: English

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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.


We have felt that the most fitting tribute that we, of the Anti-Caste movement, can pay to the memory of this noble and faithful life is to issue broadcast—as far as the means entrusted to us will allow—his last great appeal for justice (uttered through the pages of “The A.M.E. Church Review” only a few months before his death). A slanderous charge against Negro morality has gone forth throughout the world and has been widely credited. The white American has had his say both North and South. On behalf of the accused, Frederick Douglass claims, in the name of justice, to be heard.

Copies can be obtained free from the Editor of “Anti-Caste,” Street, Somerset, England.