View source for Week 3--Frederick Douglass Presentation

What is this source and how reliable is it?  What are the potential biases?

What does Douglass’s account tell us about race in the workplace?  In all of Baltimore? [

Why is this reading in a technology class?  

What does this reading reveal about the relationships between masters and slaves?

Based on Douglass's excerpt, what do you think life as a worker in the urban South would have been like in the early 19th Century?  Describe the world of the laborer.