White people will not employ them to the obvious embarrassment of their causes, and the blacks, taking their cue from the whites, have not sufficient confidence in their abilities to employ them.
From his autobiography, Douglass observes the systemic racial discrimination preventing Black people from employment and the resulting lack of confidence within the Black community.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
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