Slaves escaping, until now, had taken to the woods; they had never dreamed of profaning and abusing the waters of the noble Chesapeake, by making them the highway from slavery to freedom.
Douglass describes a novel escape strategy involving the Chesapeake Bay, transforming a natural barrier into a path to liberty.
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