Chapter XI
Refuses to detail the means of escape, criticizing the 'upperground railroad.' Describes arriving in New York: 'a state of high excitement... like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.'
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From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Douglass deliberately withholds the means of his escape to protect others, but describes the loneliness and terror of arriving in New York as a fugitive.
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