Regarding this as the fruit of slaveholding prejudice, and being determined to fight the spirit of slavery wherever I might find it, I resolved to avoid this car, though it sometimes required some courage to do so.
Douglass explains his principled refusal to accept segregated public transportation, viewing it as an extension of slavery.
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