By C.J.

Morgan

Frederick Douglass
 1818 Born Frederick Augustus Washington
Bailey, a slave, in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland.
Mother is a slave, Harriet Bailey, and father is a white
man, rumored to be his master, Aaron Anthony. He
had three older siblings, Perry, Sarah, and Eliza.
 1826 Aaron Anthony died. Frederick Bailey was
inherited by Anthony's son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Auld
then hired Bailey to his brother, Hugh Auld, in
Baltimore, where Douglass worked in the shipyards.
Hugh Auld's wife, Sophia, began to teach Bailey to
read, but the lessons ceased at the insistence of her
husband. Bailey continued his reading lessons among
the white boys on the streets of Baltimore
 1835 First attempted to escape with a group of
slaves. They were betrayed by one of their number
and jailed.

 1838 Frederick Bailey escaped from slavery using

the forged papers of a sailor. He traveled by railroad
from Maryland to New York City. Bailey and Anna
Murray married and moved to Massachusetts. He
adopted the name Frederick Douglass.
 1841 Attended an antislavery meeting on
Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he made an
impromptu speech (although not his first) that
captured the attention of William Lloyd Garrison.
Garrison then hired Douglass as a lecturer for the
American Anti-Slavery Society

 1845 “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” was

published in the United States
 1845-47 Tour of England, Scotland and Ireland

 1846 Rumors that Douglass's former master

plans to return him to slavery prompted Douglass's
friends and supporters in Britain to raise money and
buy his freedom.
 1847 Returned to the United States and relocates
to Rochester, New York, an industrial town on the
shore of Lake Ontario.

 Began publication of the North Star with partners

Martin R. Delaney and John K. Dick.
 1859 Began publication of Douglass' Monthly, a
supplement to Frederick Douglass's Paper.

 After assisting John Brown in planning a raid on

Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in order to incite a slave
revolt, Douglass declined to join the expedition. When
the plan failed, Douglass fled to England for six
months to avoid prosecution
 1861 Civil War began.

 1863 Recruited members for the Fifty-fourth

Massachusetts, a black regiment in the Union
Army. Sons Charles and Lewis joined the regiment.
Son Frederick Douglass, Jr., became a recruiter.
 1865 13th Amendment ratified: "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their Jurisdiction. Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation."
 1868Amendment ratified: "All persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws."
 1870 15th Amendment ratified: "The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude. Congress shall have poser to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation."
 1872 The Equal Rights Party, headed by it presidential
nominee, Victoria Woodhull, nominated Douglass as
its vice-presidential candidate. Douglass does not
publicly associate himself with this party, and did not
meet Woodhull until his third trip to Europe over a
decade later.

 Arsonists allegedly burned the Douglass home in

Rochester, destroying many of Douglass's
papers. The family moved to Washington, D.C.
 1878Purchased Cedar Hill, an estate in
Anacostia, District of Columbia.

 1881 Third autobiography, Life and Times of

Frederick Douglass, published.

 1891 Revised edition of Life and Times of

Frederick Douglass published.

 1895 ( February 20th) Died at Cedar Hill.