‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
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The Role of Race in Douglas's Life
The increasing racial intolerance in Philadelphia may have prompted him to move like that. That's a part of his story. And he very likely experienced some form of racial discrimination and may have predicted its increase when we look about, you know,. Douglas on a ship and his maritime kind of experience. So those racial distinctions that may have been quite rigid on land were a bit more malleable, a bit more porous on a ship.
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