Much of my early dislike of white persons was removed, and their manners, habits, and customs, so entirely unlike what I had been used to in the kitchen-quarters on the plantations of the south, fairly charmed me, and gave me a strong disrelish for the coarse and degrading customs of my former condition.
Douglass describes how exposure to refined society in the North helped him shed his prejudice against white people and appreciate new customs.
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It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
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