To be precise, though, this comes from the omniscient narrator, which means it is Douglass sneering directly at the villagers herself.
There's quite a bit of omniscient narration in this thing, and it's always like this - sneering, condescending and nasty when it isn't heaping hypocritical and tedious praise on the favourite characters.
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There's quite a bit of omniscient narration in this thing, and it's always like this - sneering, condescending and nasty when it isn't heaping hypocritical and tedious praise on the favourite characters.