Compared to his experience with other Slave owners, life on Mr. Freelands farm was notably much more conducive.

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Despite this Fredericks desire for making a bid for freedom could not be suppressed but while he bided his time planing it he, after much pressure and encouragement from his fellow enslaved, began to teach his fellow colleagues to read using the Good Book as a text book.

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It was hugely successful enterprise with many assembling in the woods from various farms in the area that sadly was savagely broken up by ‘good Christians’ upon its discovery.

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This experience once again disgusted Frederick and led to his questioning the very existence of the Lord Almighty if this is how his flock operate.

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With their plans all set the date upon which Frederick and his four colleagues soon came along only for it to have been compromised resulting in their capture and a fifteen mile trek handcuffed behind a horse towards Easton Jail.