… than not; it is not best that you seem too learned.”[10] Douglass had too much self-respect, as well as too much … a national interest in me, and securing me an audience.”[18] Douglass was, in fact, his own brilliant PR man. Scholars … (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), xlvii. [10] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), 282; …