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If they could bear with him when ignorant and degraded, they should bear with him now that he is a gentleman and a scholar.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If they could bear with him when ignorant and degraded, they should bear with him now that he is a gentleman and a…”
Editor's note · Context
He asserts that if society could accept Black people when they were uneducated, they should certainly accept them now that they are educated and refined.
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