inguish him from the other slaves. The Aulds lived in the city, allowing Douglass the opportunity to experience slavery in a different way than that in the fields of the plantations. The city life was nothing like that on the plantations. Says Douglass, "a city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation" (Douglass, 264). Douglass was better fed, better clothed, and better treated than the other slaves on the plantation. He even enjoyed more
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