t; (44). During his time on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, Douglass he was too small to work in the fields so like other slave children, he spent most of his time doing menial tasks with the other children. When he was seven or eight Douglass was sent to Baltimore to serve Mr. Hugh Auld. Douglass's life was at slave took a turning point when he was sent to Baltimore. He looked at it as "it possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have today, instead of being seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom confined in the galling chains of slavery" (62). For it was in Baltimore that Douglass taught himself to read and write. The me
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