Answer:
like a duck!! no just a joke.
Explanation: In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New York, I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions. This state of mind, however, very soon subsided; and I was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness.
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How did Douglass feel when he arrived in the free state? He escaped on September 3 to New York and when he arrived he realized that he's in a strange place, he doesn't know anyone, and anyone could be trying to return him to captivity.