If from the cradle through life the outside world brands a class as unfit for this or that work, the character of the class will come to resemble and conform to the character described.
In his autobiography, Douglass asserts that persistent societal branding of a group as unfit will inevitably lead that group to internalize and exhibit the ascribed characteristics.
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