(1845), which became the most famousslave autobiography in American history. In it he described in detailhis early years as a slave in Talbot County and Baltimore, Mary-land, as well as his life in the North after his escape from slavery,at approximately age twenty. (Douglass never defi ...
It had a wide mixture of nationalities, a varied society, the mixed town and county system of local government, a varied economic life, many religious sects. In short, it was a region mediating between New England and the South, and the East and the West. It represented that composite ...