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Frederick Douglass: “They said I did not talk like a slave, look like a slave, nor act like a slave, and that they believed I had never been…”

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They said I did not talk like a slave, look like a slave, nor act like a slave, and that they believed I had never been south of Mason and Dixon’s line.
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Frederick Douglass

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He recounts the disbelief of others regarding his past as a slave, illustrating the stereotypes and misconceptions about Black individuals.

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