Are you a child with wants, tastes and pursuits common to children, not put on, but natural? then, were you black as ebony you would be welcome to the child of alabaster whiteness.
In his autobiography, Douglass uses a rhetorical question to illustrate the natural acceptance and lack of prejudice among children, regardless of race.
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