1.   Douglass conducted clandestine schools for slaves in the St. Michaels area before he escaped slavery and fled north.

2.   He said that Moses had led the first recorded labor protest when he shepherded the Jews out of Egypt to escape slavery under the Pharaoh.

3.   Henry Bibby, who fought his whole life to escape slavery, is another.

4.   His father, William Drew Robeson, escaped slavery three years before the Civil War began.

5.   Others escaped slavery along the Underground Railroad, often with help from Quakers.

6.   One is staked near a historic marker on Frederick Douglass Road, named for the famous black man who escaped slavery and spoke eloquently for abolition.

7.   Passover is a remembrance of the Jewish exodus from Egypt to escape slavery.

8.   Some loyalists were blacks who escaped slavery by casting their lot with the British redcoats.

9.   The book also includes a map tracing the likely route of the Israelites after they escaped slavery in Egypt.