While this lad could not associate with ignorance without sharing its shade, he could not give his black playmates his company without giving them his superior intelligence as well.
In his autobiography, Douglass explains how his association with a white playmate influenced both of them.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.