Frederick Douglass escapes slavery
1838 · Event
Disguised as a free Black sailor with borrowed papers, the twenty-year-old Frederick Bailey takes a train from Baltimore and reaches New York in under 24 hours.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, USA, Master
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