Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
What word from the excerpt provides evidence that a
an enslaved person, the author had little to no control
over where he lived?
I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of
finding none which I should relish less than the one
which I was leaving. If, however, I found in my new
home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness. I had
the consolation that I should not have escaped any one
of them by staying. Having already had more than a
taste of them in the house of my old master, and having
endured them there. I very naturally inferred my ability to
endure them elsewhere, and especially at Baltimore
confident
hunger
escaped
consolation