On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
When I go to church, I am met by no upturned nose and scornful lip to tell me, “We don’t allow niggers in here!
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “When I go to church, I am met by no upturned nose and scornful lip to tell me, “We don’t allow niggers in here!”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the freedom from racial exclusion he experienced in Irish places of worship.
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