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On Febuary 14th, 1818 Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey was born at Holme Hill Farm.
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15 major events of Frederick Douglasses life.
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Fredrick Douglass Moves to Wye River Plantation to go live with his siblings, Perry, Sarah and Eliza.
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Fredrick ask Sophia Auld to teach to read until Hugh Auld found out and made her stop. He believed that when slaves are educated it makes them revolt.
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Sent to St. Micheals, Maryland where he works for Thomas Auld. Tries to teach other slaves to read until Auld disovers it and stops him.
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Hired out to work for William Freeland, a Talbot County, Maryland, Farmer. Secretly organizes Sunday school and teaches other slaves to read.
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Makes an escape plan but is discovered, jailed, and then released. He returns to Work for Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore and is hired out to work as a caulker in a Baltimore shipyard. The knowledge he gains there help in him escaping slavery two years later.
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Joins the East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society, a debating club of free black men. Through the society, he meets a free Aferican-American housekeeper, Anna Murray.
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Borrowing papers from a free black sailor, he escpaes from slavery to New York and Changes his last name to Johnson.
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Publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,. In it, he reveals details that cous lead to his arrest as a fugitive slave. Begins tour of Great Britian and Ireland, lecturing on slavery with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Raises money to "Purchase" his freedom, Auld recevies $711.66 in payment.
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Participat in first women rights convention, Seneca Falls, New York.
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Publication of his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom.
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Meets with Lincoln, 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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Becomes president of the troubled Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. Works with the chairman of the Senate Finace Commitee to save the bank, which ultimately fails.
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Publishes his third and final autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
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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.
