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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