When the door was opened, I walked in, on an equal footing with my white fellow-citizens, and from all I could see, I had as much attention paid me by the servants that showed us through the house, as any with a paler skin.
Douglass recounts his experience of being treated equally in a prestigious setting, challenging racial norms.
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