Douglass 2

As a fugitive slave Douglass experiences a new life within the "freedom" of the north. Once in Baltimore Douglass attends a church service in New Bedford, Ma where he hopes to be united brother to brother with all man. Whether he is once again naive to the ways of the world or sets the reader up to believe he would be joined arm and arm with mankind in the north is uncertain. Nevertheless, he along with other "colored" men are ostracized within the church congregation, where he is treated as a subordinate creed under the eyes of God. Douglass leaves and vows not to return. Douglass learns here, that equality is far from a right of passage simply by escaping the chains of the plantation.