I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.

—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass

Select the word that provides evidence of the historical context in which Douglass was enslaved in nineteenth-century America.