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Abolitionist leader Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. https://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324
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Defying a ban on teaching slaves to read and write, A Baltimore slaveholders wife taught Frederick Douglass the alphabet when he was 12. https://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324
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As word spread of his efforts to educate fellow slaves, Thomas Auld took him back and transferred him to Edward Covey, a farmer who was known for his brutal treatment of the slaves in his charge. Douglass would later reveal that he beat up his slave master in a fight. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass
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Escapes to freedom via the Underground Railroad, gets married and changes name to Fredrick Douglass.
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Douglass speaks at an Abolitionist Meeting in Massachusetts and is employed as a lecturer by William Lloyd Garrison for the Anti-Slavery Society
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Publishes "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave". This book is wildly popular.
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Douglass publishes "The North Star" a weekly newspaper in Rochester, New York.
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He publishes his second autobiography "My Bondage and My Freedom" This book is also wildly popular and he also helps runaway slaves to find freedom via the Underground Railroad.
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Douglass met with President Lincoln to improve the treatment of African-American soldiers.
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Fredrick Douglass purchased a 15 acre piece of land that was named Cedar Hill and retired.
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Fredrick Douglass suffered a heart attack after attending a women's rights meeting on February 20, 1895.
