… McFeely, Frederick Douglass (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 24. [4] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom … stage. He was lambasted by most of the British press; one paper described him as a “bejewelled darkie.” Another … and semi-baboonish agility.” Strangely enough, another paper reported that Brown actually spoke quite correctly, and …