>Escapes to freedom through newly formed confidential express shipping.
>Goes on clout chase tour, refusing advice from abolitionists (eg Frederick Douglass) to not detail his escape so it can continue to be used.
>Books published. Begins speaking engagements. Develops moving panorama. All same year he escaped.
>Clout chasing puts the brakes on his method of escape. Southern people who organized his freedom end up arrested trying to free more.
>Refused to buy his wife and THREE kids freedom after being offered.
>Law gets passed the next year, forcing officials in freed states to cooperate in returning refugee slaves.
>Runs to England.
>Continues his antislave panorama. Joins the entertainment circuit. Acts. Eventually becomes magician.
>Remarries white woman and starts family.
>Moves back to America 25yrs later, but settles in Toronto
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Yea his story isn’t gonna go over well in todays day and age.