Freedom fighter Frederick Douglass came to speak in Perth
Popular soft play facility under threat of closure due to pandemicBut in 1837, a 19-year-old Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.Her free status strengthened his belief in the possibility of gaining his own freedom and she encouraged and supported his efforts by aid and money.Having previously failed to escape from horrid prospector William Freeland, a 20-year-old Douglass successfully escaped in September 1838 and boarded a northbound train of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.Young Douglass travelled through a number of slave states disguised in a sailor’s uniform, provided to him by his beau Anna, who also gave him part of her savings to cover