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Life as a Slave
Chapter 23
My Escape from Slavery
Explaining why he withholds the specific method, Douglass describes hiring out his own time, Hugh Auld's revocation of that privilege after an unauthorized trip to a camp meeting, and his successful escape from Baltimore on September 3, 1838.
Why Douglass refuses to describe how he escapedHiring his own time and paying Hugh Auld weeklyThe camp-meeting trip that ended the arrangementSeptember 3, 1838 — the day he left Baltimore