They had cried, with one accord, “Kill the nigger!” “Kill the nigger!” Even those who may have pitied me, if any such were among them, lacked the moral courage to come and volunteer their evidence.
This quote illustrates the extreme hostility Douglass faced, revealing the collective aggression of the crowd against him as a Black man.
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