![]() ![]() Within 24 hours, Douglass was able to make his way to the safe house of an abolitionist in New York. He also carried identification papers obtained from a free black seaman. Murray had provided him with some of her savings and a sailor’s uniform. In September 1838, Douglass boarded a train to north-east Maryland. “Mr Thomas Lanman of St Michael’s killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out" In fact, Douglass made two escape attempts before he was assisted in a successful route to the free states by Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore with whom he had fallen in love. At first, he sought to liberate himself through education and self-improvement, but came to recognise that he would have to become a fugitive from the south, like so many others. ![]() He was born into slavery in the Chesapeake shore, Maryland. According to many accounts, the determination from his earliest years to escape bondage set Douglass apart. ![]()
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