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Life as a Freeman
Chapter 27
Various Incidents
Returning to found his own newspaper against his Boston friends' advice, Douglass explains his public break with Garrison's disunionism, and closes with a survey of ordinary encounters with northern racial prejudice — on railroads, in hotels, in private homes.
Founding the North Star against Boston friends' objectionsThe break with Garrison over the Constitution and disunionismBeing dragged from railroad cars for refusing the “Jim Crow car”Governor Briggs and Colonel Clifford's public friendliness