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Excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.


What problem is Douglass referring to in this excerpt?

A. the alarming rise in crime that was taking place

B the difficulties of living in Virginia prior to the Civil War

C the injustice and unreliability of the death penalty

D the unfair treatment of African Americans in the courts