Racism, as defined in the American Heritage Dictionary is the "notion that one's own ethnic stock is superior." In our world today, no certain race is declared superior over the others. Our society was all created as individuals with our own unique characteristics. Frederick Douglass', My Bondage and My Freedom, proves blacks are equal in intelligence and capability to whites by writing of his life experience.
In this autobiography, Frederick Douglass says that his mistress, Mrs. Auld, set out to treat him as "she supposed one human being ought to treat another." To her, the color of Mr. Douglass' skin did not make him more or less of a human, nor should it. Mr.
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