What was life like for Frederick Douglass as a young American slave boy in Maryland?

To add on the the post above, Douglass comments on his days on the plantation as being somewhat idle.  He, along with the other slave children, live with his grandmother, and they spend their days doing small chores.  Douglass is too small to work in the fields, so he must run errands in the meantime.  This all changes when he is sent to live with Master Hugh in Baltimore.  While there, he occupies his time during the day getting literacy lessons (until it is deemed that he should not be taught to read and write), running errands around town, and making "friends" with the poor white boys down the street.  In Baltimore, Douglass's life as a slave began to show some opportunity, unlike his idle days on the plantation.