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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland
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As a young boy Hugh Auld's wife Sophia, the people he lived and worked for, taught him the alphabet and how to read behind her husbands back and despite the laws against it. Douglass then taught all the other slave on the plantation how to read.
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Douglass participated in the American Anti-Slavery Society, which was a six-month tour throughout the east and midwest United States.
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His first autobiography was, Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, and the popularity of this book forced him out of the country.
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Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention held in the United States. Frederick attended and was a signatory of its Declaration of Sentiments
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This was when the first official black troops were registered. Frederick conferred with President Abraham Lincoln on the treatment of black soldiers
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Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States. He was nominated without his knowledge and he did not campaign or acknowledge the nomination.
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Douglass delivered the keynote speech at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln park.
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Douglass was the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a majority party's roll call vote.
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Douglass dropped dead of a heart attack in the hallway of his residence in Anacostia Heights
