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throughout many of the parishes, counties, of Louisiana,
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a standoff took place in Colfax
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I'll come back to that in a moment
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But back to the Slaughterhouse Case that came down that day
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It was, in the end, a testing of
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the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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In 1869 the City of New Orleans,
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under its Republican state government,
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created a corporation to move the slaughterhouse of New Orleans--
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there actually had never been a legitimate slaughterhouse in New Orleans
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What the butchers of New Orleans would do,
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the white butchers of New Orleans would do,