I employ a cab--I am seated beside white people--I reach the hotel--I enter the same door--I am shown into the same parlor-- I dine at the same table--and no one is offended.
From his autobiography, Douglass details the ordinary acts of equality he experienced in Ireland, which were denied to him in America.
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