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Image design Botanical Sage
Read & copy
“The object of this publication is to tell the facts,”
Meaning & context
Wells states the documentary purpose of her anti-lynching work plainly: public action requires facts about violence that institutions and public narratives had obscured.
Source details
The Red Record (1895), “A Field for Practical Work,” represented by Project Gutenberg #14977. Wells immediately asks supporters to circulate documented facts and figures about lynching; the record preserves the historical anti-lynching campaign context.