Paying Culprits through the Nose
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Chemistry, Crime, Race, Cultural Geography, Commerce |
Discusses a report in the New York Journal of Commerce concerning a scheme for marking the noses of white convicts with black dye. Believes that if 'Chemistry [...] could afford' a 'cosmetic' for leaving a white mark on black convicts' noses, 'it would emancipate several millions of persons in America' who could 'obtain their freedom as easily as insolvent debtors' if they could whitewash themselves. |
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