Why did frederick douglass spend three days washing in the creek before he left for baltimore?

a. because master lloyd wanted him to look presentable for the sale
b. because a new girl he liked had just arrived
c. because he had spent the day before in the pig pen
d. because mrs. lucretia told him he had to clean himself up

D.

Explanation: Frederick Douglass spent three days washing in the creek before he left for Baltimore because Mrs. Lucretia told him he had to clean himself up. In "The Narrative of the Life", by Frederick Douglass, before he left for Baltimore he washes off the plantation scurf. Mrs. Lucretia told him that he had to get off all the dead skin of his feet and knees because the people in Baltimore were very clean.

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

thats exactly the right answer