How did Frederick Douglass escape slavery?
Frederick made an attempt to escape slavery with three other slaves in 1833, but the plot was discovered before they could get away. Five years later, he managed to escape by posing as a free sailor and boarding a train headed to Philadelphia. He fled first to New York City and then to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a labourer for three years, eluding slave hunters by changing his surname to Douglass.