Chronology

Chronology
February 1818 Born Frederick Baily near Easton, Maryland
1824 Works for Captain Aaron Anthony
1826 Travels to Baltimore, Maryland to work for Hugh Auld
March 1833 Returns to Anthony farm to work for Thomas Auld
January 1834 Works for Edward Covey
1835 Works for William Freeland
1836 First escape plan fails; is imprisoned; sent back to Hugh Auld
1837 Meets Anna Murray
September 1838 Escapes to New York; sends for and marries Anna Murray; changes name to Frederick Douglass
August 1841 Asked to speak at American Anti-Slavery Society meeting; invited to go on lecture tour
May 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is published; Douglass begins tour of England
1847 Returns to the United States and begins lecture tour
December 1847 Begins printing the North Star
1848 Attends first women’s rights convention
1850 Becomes involved in the underground railroad
1851 Breaks with William Garrison
November 1859 Sails to England to begin lecture tour
May 1860 Returns to the United States
1863 Meets with President Abraham Lincoln to discuss the treatment of black soldiers during the Civil War
1864 Meets with Lincoln to formulate plans to lead blacks out of the South in case of a Union defeat
February 1866 Meets with President Andrew Johnson to discuss black suffrage.
July 1867 Declines Johnson’s offer to head Freedman’s Bureau
May 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment is adopted and blacks are granted the right to vote; becomes editor of the New National Era
1874 Becomes president of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
1877 Becomes U.S. Marshal
1880 Appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C.
August 1882 Anna Douglass dies
January 1884 Douglass marries Helen Pitts of Rochester
1889 Accepts post of American consul-general to Haiti
1891 Resigns Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti; disgust over maneuvering by State Department and American Business to acquire Mole St. Nicolas. Returns home
1892 Serves as Commissioner of Haitian exhibit at World’s Fair in Chicago
January 1894 Delivers his last great address, “Lessons of the Hour,” a powerful burst of his old-time fury against lynch law in the South.
February 20 1895 Attends morning sessions of National Council of Women in Washington, D.C.; dies at Cedar Hill in the evening
February 25 1895 Family funeral services held at “Cedar Hill”; body lies in state at Metropolitan African Methodist Church in Washington.
February 26 1895 Body lies in state at Rochester City Hall; funeral services held in Rochester Central Presbyterian Church; buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.