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Frederick Douglass was born Febuary 1818. He would become well known when he released his biography
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Sophia Auld begins teaching Frederick how to read.
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Sensing that trouble was coming Huck hides his 6,000 dollars with Judge Thatcher to make sure it is safe.
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Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and flees to New York. Huck runs away from his father and fakes his death. These points are important because it shows how both Frederick adn Huck couldnt stay in there current situation and escaped.
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Frederick Douglas escapes slavery and marries Anna Murray the same year. Huck meets up with Jim on Jackson island. This is signifigant because they both meet up with intrumental charachters that influence them at this point.
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Huck and Jim come across a wrecked steamboat and decide to go aboard where they find three robbers.
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Huck and Jim get seperated and Huck, using a false name, stays with the Grangerfords.
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Huck and Jim pick up King and Duke who are on the run from Dogs. King and Duke pretend to be royalty
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Duke and King impersonate the brothers of a recently deceassed man named Peter Wilkes. Huck feels guilty about this.
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Tom's Aunt mistakes Huck for Tom and Huck and Huck goes along with it in order to free Jim. Tom pretends to be Tom's cousin Sid.
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This is a signifigant part of the story because it took courage to try and free Jim just like it took courage tfor Frederick to write a book about his former slave life.
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Jim reveals to Huck at the their adventure that the dead person they saw in the flooded cabin was his Pap.
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British supporters sympathized with him and bought his freedom from Hugh Auld.
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Frederick Douglass's first son is born. He is named Lewis Henry.
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Publishes an attack on the Compromise of 1850 and the new fugitive-slave law.
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Douglass writes a second autobiography titled: "My Bondage and My Freedom."
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Frederick Douglass is struck by a massive heartattack and dies at the age of 77