I had put off running away, until now I was to be placed where the opportunities for escaping were much fewer than in a large city like Baltimore.
On my way from Baltimore to St.Michael's, down the Chesapeake bay, our sloop--the "Amanda"-- was passed by the steamers plying between that city and Philadelphia, and I watched the course of those steamers, and, while going to St.Michael's, I formed a plan to escape from slavery; of which plan, and matters connected therewith the kind reader shall learn more hereafter..