White men are becoming house-servants, cooks, and stewards, common laborers, and flunkeys to our gentry, and, for aught I see, they adjust themselves to their stations with all becoming obsequiousness.
Douglass observes the changing social hierarchy where white men are increasingly taking on roles traditionally associated with Black labor.
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