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Article: Lawful entitlements: Chesnutt's fictions of ownership.(Nature, Law, and Representation)(Charles Chesnutt)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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If he be a white man and assigned to a colored coach, he may have his
action for damages against the company for being deprived of his so
called property. Upon the other hand, if he be a colored man and be
so assigned, he has been deprived of no property, since he is not
lawfully entitled to the reputation of being a white man.
Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson (1)