Frederick Douglass: “So uniformly are good manners enforced among slaves, I can easily…”

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So uniformly are good manners enforced among slaves, I can easily detect a “bogus” fugitive by his manners.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass claims that good manners among enslaved people can reveal the authenticity of a fugitive's status.

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