Why Is the Negro Lynched?
by Frederick Douglass
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About this eBook
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Title
- Why is the Negro Lynched?
- Credits
- Produced by hekula03, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E151: History: America: United States
- Subject
- African Americans -- Crimes against
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 59116
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59116
- Release Date
- March 24, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Why is the Negro Lynched?
- 2.I. — THE AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE INDICTED ON A NEW CHARGE. INTRODUCTORY—THE WRITER’S CLAIM TO BE HEARD. [A] — EPIDEMIC OF MOB-LAW. — ATTITUDE OF UPPER CLASSES. — INCRIMINATION OF THE WHOLE RACE.
- 3.II. — THE DEFENCE—“NOT GUILTY.” CHARACTER OF THEIR ACCUSERS CHALLENGED. — THE NEGRO’S CLEAN RECORD DURING WAR TIME. — EXCUSES FOR LYNCHING—DELICACY OF SUBJECT; POSSIBILITY OF CRIMINAL’S ESCAPE FROM JUSTICE.
- 4.III. — THE THREE STAGES OF NEGRO PERSECUTION. THEIR OBJECT—HIS DISFRANCHISEMENT. — THE ATTACK LESS UPON CRIME THAN COLOUR.
- 5.IV. — OBJECTIONS ANSWERED: PECULIARITIES OF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT. LACK OF RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE. — GENERAL UNFAIRNESS—THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION, ETC.
- 6.V. — NEGRO SUFFRAGE: ATTEMPT TO ABRIDGE THE RIGHT. THE LOWLY NEED ITS PROTECTION. — DECADENCE OF THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY.
- 7.VI. — DELUSIVE COLONISATION SCHEMES. — EMANCIPATION CRIPPLED. LANDLORD AND TENANT. — ATTITUDE OF WHITE RACE TOWARDS NEGROES. A NATIONAL PROBLEM.
- 8.VII. — HOW THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED. — FOOTNOTE:
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