“Held to a strict account, and kept under a close watch,— the old suspicion of my running away not having been entirely removed,—to accomplish my escape seemed a very difficult thing. The railroad from Baltimore to Philadelphia was under regulations so stringent that even free colored travelers were almost excluded.”
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
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