Read this excerpt from narrative of the life of frederick douglass. in the afternoon of that day, we reached annapolis, the capital of the state. we stopped but a few moments, so that i had no time to go on shore. it was the first large town that i had ever seen, and though it would look small compared with some of our new england factory villages, i thought it a wonderful place for its size – more imposing even than the great house farm! which of these is a true statement about travel during douglass’s youth? a enslaved persons had few opportunities to travel and few experiences beyond their plantations. b enslaved persons often traveled to new england factories seeking a better way of life. c enslaved persons were encouraged to visit their state capitals when traveling between plantations. d enslaved persons were welcomed warmly, in many harbor towns, when they travelled by boat.

A) Enslaved persons had few opportunities to travel and few experiences beyond their plantations.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, we can see the description of the first time that he went to Annapolis, the capital of the State, he explains that it was the first large town that he had ever seen, and he compared it to the New England factory villages and to the Great House Farm, this shows that enslaved persons had few opportunities to travel and few experiences beyond their plantations.

answer: metaphor: because there is a comparison between the treasures spread on the ground and the evil seed of adam drifting from the shoreline  

explanation:

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.