As I walked through the building, the statuary did not fall down, the pictures did not leap from their places, the doors did not refuse to open, and the servants did not say, “We don’t allow niggers in here!
Douglass sarcastically recounts his experience of being treated equally in a public place abroad, highlighting the baseless fears of racial integration.
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