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The Crime Of Being Free

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-Atnittee of the legisluture of Georgia, in order to raise three hundred thousand dollars for the completion of ihe Western and Atlantic railroad, has recomrnended u luw levying a direct tax, in which is the disgraceful provisión of taxiag every free negro ten dollars, solely for the crime of beingfree!