I now find that I could have landed in no part of the United States, where I should have found a more striking and gratifying contrast to the condition of the free people of color in Baltimore, than I found here in New Bedford.
Reflecting on his arrival in New Bedford, Douglass describes the stark difference in the treatment and opportunities for free Black people compared to Baltimore.
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