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Frederick Douglass: “After many battles with the railroad conductors, and being roughly handled in not a few instances, proscription was at…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
After many battles with the railroad conductors, and being roughly handled in not a few instances, proscription was at last abandoned; and the “Jim Crow car”—set up for the degradation of colored people—is nowhere found in New England.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass recounts the successful struggle against segregated railroad cars in New England, highlighting the eventual abolition of the “Jim Crow car.”

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