After many battles with the railroad conductors, and being roughly handled in not a few instances, proscription was at last abandoned; and the “Jim Crow car”—set up for the degradation of colored people—is nowhere found in New England.
Douglass recounts the successful struggle against segregated railroad cars in New England, highlighting the eventual abolition of the “Jim Crow car.”
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