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The headline of the story, “Negroes may use bombs,” almost certainly raised eyebrows, but Douglass was responding to the rash of lynchings in the South, the same atrocities that Chicago reporter Ida B. Wells covered in “Southern Horrors,” published the same year.
“It is very strange,” Douglass mused, “that the south has to resort to lynch law in this day and age. There is but one excuse for it, and that is they are too weak to enforce laws and this condemns them.”
He wondered why “southern gentlemen” left their wives, daughters and mothers “in charge of colored men with perfect confidence” to fight the Civil War, and now those same gentlemen viewed Black men as “mean, vile and not fit to live.”