"Worse than Slavery" Masked, armed, and supplied with horses and money... they ride over the country at midnight, and perpetrate unheard-of enormities ... Yet before these infamous associations Southern society trembles. They rob, they murder, they whip, they intimidate; yet no man, white or black, dares to denounce them. If a colored man ventures to tell of some frightful assassination which he saw in the dim midnight, he is himself dragged from the prison where he had been placed for safety and slaughtered ... According to the article, what would happen to an African American man who reported a killing committed by a white supremacy group?

O He would be forced to leave the country.
O He would be beaten and imprisoned.
O He would be dragged from a safe place and killed.

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