What a pity there was not some American democratic Christian at the door of his splendid mansion, to bark out at my approach, “They don’t allow niggers in here!” The truth is, the people here know nothing of the republican Negro hate prevalent in our glorious land.
From his autobiography, Douglass sarcastically notes the absence of racial prejudice in Ireland, contrasting it with the pervasive racism in America.
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