With a colored man on a sleeping car as its conductor, the last to have his bed made up at night, and the last to have his boots blacked in the morning, and the last to be served in any way, is the colored passenger.
Douglass illustrates the internalized prejudice within the Black community, where a Black conductor would prioritize white passengers over Black ones.
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