“If he were greeted with smiles before, he meets with frowns now; and it shall go well with him if he be not subjected to that peculiarly fining method of showing fealty to slavery, the assaults of a mob.”
Douglass describes the hostile reception faced by foreigners who express opposition to slavery.
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