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The Life of Frederick Douglass
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Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, in Tuckahoe, Maryland.
1818
Mother dies; sent to Baltimore to live with Hugh Auld and his wife Sophia.
1826
Makes an escape plan but is discovered, jailed, and released.
1836
Returns to work for the Aulds.
1836
Is hired out to work as a caulker in a Baltimore shipyard.
1837
The knowledge he gains there helps him escape slavery two years later.
1837
He escapes from slavery to New York and changes his last name to Douglass.
1838
Speaks about his life at an antislavery meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
1841
Publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
1845
Buys printing press and begins publishing the abolitionist weekly North Star.
1847
Begins sheltering escaped slaves fleeing north on the "underground railroad."
1848
Publication of his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom.
1855
Begins publishing Douglass' Monthly, first as a 2nd to Frederick Douglass' Paper
1859
Douglass becomes a recruiter for the 54th MA Infantry, the 1st of black soldiers
1863
Meets with Lincoln to discuss the unequal pay & treatment black soldiers receive
1863
Lincoln asks Douglass to prepare an effort to help slaves escaping to the North
1864
Douglass lectures on Reconstruction and women's rights.
1865
President Ulysses Grant appoints Douglass to help deal w/ Dom. Repub. annexation
1871
Becomes president of the troubled Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company.
1874
Douglass is appointed U.S. marshal of D.C. by President Hayes.
1877
Publishes 3rd and final autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
1881
Douglass's long-time wife dies. He goes into depression.
1882
Appointed U.S. minister resident and consul general of Republic of Haiti.
1889
Dies of heart failure after a meeting of the National Council of Women in DC
1895
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