Frederick Douglass

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    Frederick Douglass

  • Born in Maryland

    tuckahoe, talbot county, Maryland

  • Northern states are forbidden of Slavery

  • Slave revolt in SC

    Slave revolt in SC

    35 participants hanged
  • began labor

    began labor

    only a little boy - six years old
  • Slave Revolt in Virginia

    Slave Revolt in Virginia

    Led by Nat Turner

  • First Negro Covention held

    Philidelphia, PA

  • Escaped slavery

    Fought master and escaped Baltimore
  • First hears famous abolitionists

    First hears famous abolitionists

    Inspired by William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips

  • became orator

    spoke of the brutalities of slavery
  • employed as a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society.

    employed as a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society.

  • Publishes an auto biography named The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

  • Leaves for England and Scotland to escape slave hunters.

  • English admirers purchase Douglass' freedom and he returns to the US

  • Publishes North Star, an abolitionist newspaper

    Publishes North Star, an abolitionist newspaper

  • Harsher Fugitive Slave Law

    Enforced bt northern congressmen
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin published

    Sold 300,000 copiesand increasing feelings on slaves in North and South

  • Publishes second autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom

  • Dred Scott Decision

    -blacks can never be citizens

  • Douglass rejects John Brown asking to join revolt

    John Brown stayed at Douglass house
  • John Brown Raid

    John Brown Raid

    Attack Harpers Ferry, VA and taken prisoner
  • Emmancipation Proclamation

    Emmancipation Proclamation

    All slaves free in Rebel territory

  • Receives Lincoln's walking stick from Mrs. Lincoln

  • 13th Ammendment

    13th Ammendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 15th ammendment

    Rightto vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

  • Becomes federal marshal for the District of Columbia

  • Dies in Ceder Hill