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Summary

The Mail is criticized for publishing stories about rape and murder attributed to Negroes, "quite as prurient as those in the Police Gazette" and often false, as in the Milhean case.


Article Source

Newspaper: The Herald and Torch Light

Publication Date: October 21st, 1868

Page/Column: 2B

Town: Hagerstown, MD

County: Washington

Subjects

  • African Americans
  • Aftermath of War / Reconstruction

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