The first passage says: "...he was separated from his mother almost immediately after his birth and remembered seeing her only four or five times before her death. Cared for by his maternal grandmother, an enslaved midwife, he suffered a cruel emotional blow when, at the age of six, he was taken from his home to work on one of the largest plantations on Maryland's eastern shore." (2)

What part of the narrative is this?
answers:
The inciting incident

The exposition

The climax

The resolution