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It throws over every man of colour a mantle of odium, and sets upon him a mark of popular hate, more distressing than the mark set upon the first murderer.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
He illustrates the damaging effects of societal perceptions on Black men, equating them to a mark of shame.
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