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Why did Frederick Douglas have a better chance at escaping to freedom than other slaves?

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Because he used a disguise and job skills he had learned while he forced to work in Baltimore’s shipyard he posed as a sailor and grabbed a train headed to Philadelphia
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Answer: He was better-educated than most other people in the abolition movement.

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