douglass

Everything looked clean,new, and beatiful. I saw few or no dilapidated houses. With poverty-stricken inmates, no half-naked children and bare-footed women. Such as I had been accustimed to see inHillsborough, Easton, St. Michaels, and Baltimore. The people liked more able, stronger, healthier, and happier; than those of Maryland. I was for once made glad by a view of exteme wealth, without being saddened by seeing extreme poverty. But, the most astonishing, as well, as the most interesting thing to me was the condition to the colored people. A great many of whom like myself; had escaped, Thither as a refuge, from the hunters of men I found many who had not been seven years out of their chains living in finer houses and evidently enjoing more of the comforts of life;than those of the average slave holders in Maryland. I can say with a grateful heart, "I was stranger and He took me in," lived in neater house, dined at a better table, read more and better understood the moral, religious, and political character of the nation; than nine-tenths of the slaveholders in Talbot County, Maryland.