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Quote #10
Privileges did not separate me, instead/they linked me closer to them by that mental chain/whose eyes interlocked with mine, as if we all stood/at a lectern or auction block. Their condition/the same, without manacles. The chains were subtler,/but they were still hammered out of the white-hot forge/that made every captor a blacksmith. (XLI.iii.210)
The narrator reflects on the statue of a New England benefactor and concludes that there are different types of captivity and various forms of surrender. This thought connects him to white figures of authority rather than alienating him.