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Frederick Douglass was born February 17, 1818. His real name was Frederick Washington Bailey and he was born near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
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He was sent to Baltimore to be a servent where he learned to read and write with the assistance of his master's wife.
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He tries to teach other slaves to read and write till Auld catches him and makes him stop.
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He is beaten several times and finally fights back. Covey never tries to beat him again
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There he taught sunday school secretly, so slaves could learn how to read and write.
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He returned to work for Thomas Auld and Sophia Auld.
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He returns for work in Baltimore for Thomas Auld and Sophia Auld. He is hireed out to work as a caulker at a shipyard. There he learns and what he learned helped him escape two years later.
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The East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society is a debate team for black men. Through the society he meets a free African American house made named Anna Murray.
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He takes the identification papers of a free black sailor . With the papers he is able to escape to New York to get out of slavery.
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The ceremony is performed by minister James W. C. Pennington, who is also an escaped Maryland slave. After they went to live in New Bedford, Massachusetts. They stayed with caterers Mary and Nathan Johnson. Nathan told Frederick to change his last name to Douglass. He then tries to get a job as a caulker but the white employees threaten to quit if Frederick was hired.
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Frederick Douglass subscribes to William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist weekly The Liberator. Douglass hears Garrison's speech in april. Soon after, Frederick Douglass becomes a licensed preacher to a African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
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Frederick Douglass' son Lewis Henery is born. Lewis Henry is Frederick Douglass' first son. Frederick Douglass also have a daughter named Rosetta.
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Frederick Douglass speaks at an anti-slavery meeting at New Bedford, Massachusetts.Abolitionist William C. Coffin talks him into speaking about his life as a slave at a Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention. The Society is impressed and he is hired as a speaker. Douglass and Garrison become allies.
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Frederick Douglass' son, Frederick, is born. Frederick has two other children. His children are Rosetta, Lewis Henry, and Frederick Jr.
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At an antislavery meeting in Pendleton, Indiana, he is beaten by a mob. His right hand is broken in the scuffle and he never fully recovers the use of his hand.
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Now Frederick Douglass has four children. His first born Rosetta, first son Lewis Henry, his third son Frederick Jr., and his last son Charles Remond.
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In it, he reveals details that could lead to his arrest as a fugitive slave. He meets Susan B. Anthony while on a speaking tour. Later he becomes a champion of women's rights. Begins tour of Great Britain and Ireland, lecturing on slavery with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. English friends raise money to "purchase" his freedom; Douglass is manumitted after Hugh Auld receives $711.66 in payment.
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With money raised by English and Irish friends, buys printing press and begins publishing the abolitionist weekly North Star. He continues publishing it until 1851.
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Meets and becomes acquaintance of abolitionist John Brown. Begins sheltering escaped slaves fleeing north on the "underground railroad."Daughter Rosetta is asked to leave school in Rochester because she is African-American; Douglass begins struggle to end segregation in Rochester public schools.
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Frederick has six children. His daughter Rosetta, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., Charles Remond, and Annie. He hires a tutor to teach his wife, Anna, to read, but it doesn't go too well, there was no progress.
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(printed until 1860). Agrees with Smith that the Constitution is an antislavery document, reversing his earlier statements that it was proslavery, an opinion he had shared with William Lloyd Garrison. This change of opinion, as well as some political differences, create a rift between Douglass and Garrison. Douglass begins to assert his independence in the antislavery movement
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It sells three hundred thousand copies its first year in print and helps galvanize opinions on both sides of the slavery issue.
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Becomes friends with Ottilia Assing, a German journalist living in New Jersey. She eventually translates My Bondage and My Freedom into German.
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In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that African Americans are not U.S. citizens and that Congress has no authority to restrict slavery in U.S. territories.
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Begins publishing Douglass' Monthly, first as a supplement to Frederick Douglass' Paper. It becomes an independent publication the following year and is distributed until 1863.
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He plans to start a slave insurrection and provide refuge for fleeing slaves. Federal troops capture him, and he is eventually tried and hanged. Authorities find a letter from Douglass to Brown. Douglass flees to Canada and then to a planned lecture tour of England to escape arrest on charges of being an accomplice in Brown's raid.
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Daughter Annie dies in Rochester.
April
Returns to the United States and is not charged in the John Brown raid.
November
Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
December
South Carolina secedes from the Union. -
The Civil War begins.
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Congress abolishes slavery in Washington, D.C.
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February
Douglass becomes a recruiter for the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first regiment of African-American soldiers; his sons Lewis and Charles join the regiment. Eventually his son Frederick Douglass Jr. becomes an army recruiter also. About 180,000 African Americans serve in the Civil War on the Union side.
August 10
Meets with President Lincoln to discuss the unequal pay and poor treatment to black soldiers recieve. -
Meets with Lincoln again. In case the war is not a total Union victory, Lincoln asks Douglass to prepare an effort to assist slaves escaping to the North.
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December 18
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, is ratified. -
He loses ten thousand dollars when the paper folds in 1874.
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution adopted. This amendment states that the rights of citizens to vote cannot be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
President Ulysses S. Grant appoints Douglass to the commission investigating the possibility of annexing the Dominican Republic to the U.S.
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The Equal Rights Party nominates Douglass for vice-president of the United States on a ticket headed by Victoria C. Woodhull.
Douglass moves his family to Washington, D.C., after a mysterious fire destroys his home in Rochester. He attributes the fire to arson. -
Becomes president of the troubled Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. Works with the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to save the bank, which ultimately fails.
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Congress passes a Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination in public places.
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1878 Purchases Cedar Hill, in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. The twenty-room house sits on nine acres of land. He later expands the estate by buying fifteen acres of adjoining land.
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Publishes his third and final autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass House,
("Cedar Hill")
Washington, District of Columbia. President Garfield appoints one of his own friends to the post U.S. Marshall and makes Douglass recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, then a high-paying job -
1882 August 4
Douglass's wife of forty-four years, Anna Murray Douglass, dies after suffering a stroke. Douglass goes into a depression. -
The U.S. Supreme Court rules the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
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1884 January 24
Douglass marries Helen Pitts, a white woman who had been his secretary when he was recorder of deeds. The interracial marriage causes controversy among the Douglasses' friends, family, and the public. -
1886-87 Tours Europe and Africa with wife
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1889 July 1
Appointed U.S. minister resident and consul general, Republic of Haiti, and chargé d'affaires, Santo Domingo. Arrives in Haiti in October.
1890 The U.S. government instructs Douglass to ask permission for the U.S. Navy to use the Haitian port town of Môle St. Nicholas as a refueling station. -
1891 In April Haiti rejects the Navy's proposal as too intrusive. The U.S. press reports that Douglass is too sympathetic to Haitian interests. Douglass resigns as minister to Haiti in July.
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1892-93 Douglass is commissioner in charge of the Haitian exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Speaks at a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. Dies suddenly that evening of heart failure while describing the meeting to his wife.
