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192 pages, Hardcover
First published April 2, 2018
The colored man is the Jean Valjean of American society…He has escaped from the galleys…[T]he workshop denies him work, and the inn denies him shelter; the ballot-box a fair vote, and the jury-box a fair trial. He may not now be bought and sold like a beast in the market, but he is the trammeled victim of a prejudice, well calculated to repress his manly ambition, paralyze his energies, and make him a dejected and spiritless man, if not a sullen enemy to society.