Answer: 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.
