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A New Name in New Bedford
Douglass recounts his escape from Baltimore, deliberately withholding the method to protect others still enslaved, his arrival in New York, his marriage to Anna Murray, the couple's move to New Bedford, his choice of a new surname, and his discovery of Garrison's newspaper The Liberator.
Deliberate omission of the escape methodDavid Ruggles and the network aiding fugitives in New YorkMarriage to Anna MurrayMove to New Bedford and adopting the name 'Douglass'Discovering The Liberator and the abolitionist movement