I found that even the laboring classes lived in better houses, that their houses were more elegantly furnished, and were more abundantly supplied with conveniences and comforts, than the houses of many who owned slaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Upon arriving in New Bedford, Douglass contrasts the living standards of northern laborers with those of southern slaveholders.
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