5/12/2023 0 Comments Transatlantic mccann![]() When I go to church, I am met by no upturned nose and scornful lip to tell me, 'We don't allow niggers in here!'" No delicate nose is deformed in my presence … I find myself regarded and treated at every turn with the kindness and deference paid to white people. I employ a cab – I am seated beside white people – I reach the hotel – I enter the same door – I am shown into the same parlour – I dine at the same table – and no one is offended. I gaze around in vain for one who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. ![]() "Eleven days and a half gone and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. He described his feelings in a stirring letter, later published in his second great autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom: I n 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, born a slave and then still technically the chattel of a Maryland landowner, arrived in Ireland. ![]()
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