Question

The famous social reformer Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was mostly raised by his grandmother. Douglass was born a slave and remained so until 1838, when he escaped slavery by borrowing the papers of a freed slave and moved to New York. Just a few years before, in 1836, he was hired out and worked in a shipyard in Baltimore. He joined the East Baltimore Improvement Society there in 1837.
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Which is the best timeline entry based on the information above?

• Social reform begins in the 1800's
• 1837 Douglass joined the East Baltimore Improvement Society
• Douglass escapes slavery and moves to New York in 1839
• 1838 Frederick Douglass dies