The spirit of American caste against the educated Negro was conspicuously seen from start to finish, and to this extent the Exposition was made simply an American Exposition instead of a World’s Exposition.
Douglass points out the exclusion of educated Black individuals from the narrative of the Exposition.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.