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The American congress prohib its the African slave trade
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nobody is sure about exact date of birth
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Started labor as a slave
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david walker, a free black man living in boston, demands the abolition of slavery and an end to racial descrimination.
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Douglass escaped to the North and settles in Massachusets
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enslaved Africans aboard the spanish ship L'Amistad revolt.
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Douglass published the "narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"
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Texas is admitted to the union as a slave state
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His english admires bought his freedom while he was in England.
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Douglass moved to New York and brought out the "north star" against slavery.
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the Free Soil Party oppeses the expansion of slavery into the western territories
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visits Hariatt Beecher at her home.
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Eli Thayer founds the Massachusets Emigrant Aid Society to encourage opponents of slavery to move to Kansas
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refuses to accept brown in his raid
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A commercial convention in Vicksburg, Miss., calls for the African slave trade to be reopened.
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president Lincoln signs the emancipation proclimation, freeing all slaves in areas in rebellion.
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the Confederacy decides to permit slaves to serve in the military.
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the 13th ammendment to the us constitution abolishes slavery
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He married a white woman named Helen Pitts
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Frederick douglass died