General Time Line
Welcome to the Frederick Douglass timeline.
- February 1818 - Frederick Bailey was born on Holmes Farm, as a slave
- 1824 - Frederick was brought to the Llyod Plantation to work
- 1825 - The last time Frederick saw his mother
- 1825 - Frederick's mother dies
- 1826 - Frederick is sent to Baltimore Maryland to work for Hugh Auld, Sophie Auld begins teaching him to read
- 1830 - Frederick Douglass first dreams of emancipation
- March 1833 - Frederick was sent to live at Thomas Auld's farm
- January 1834 - Frederick was sent to work for Edward Covey
- 1835 - Frederick was sent to work for William Freeland, and sets up an illegal school for blacks that met every Sunday night
- 1836 - Frederick was sent to jail for a week for plotting to escape to the North
- 1836 - Frederick is sent to work for Hugh Auld again in Baltimore
- 1838 - Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray become engaged
- September 4, 1838 - Frederick arrives in New York City
- September 15, 1838 - Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray are married
- March 1839 - Some of Frederick Douglass' written pieces were published in
- August 1841 - Douglass sees his role-model, William Lloyd Garrison, for the first time, later, Garrison hires Douglass to be an agent
- 1842 - Douglass traveled through New York and Massachusets with Garrison
- 1843 - Douglass participates in the Hundred Conventions project
- 1844-45 - Douglass writed down a history of his life
- May 1845 - Douglas has 5,000 copies of his book,
- 1845 - Frederick Douglass travels to England to escape slave-catchers and speak freely to English slaves about emancipation
- August 1845 - Douglass had 4 children
- 1846 - Garrison joins Douglass as they travel through Europe, speaking
- December 5, 1846 - Douglass' friends saved $710.96 to pay for Frederick Douglass' freedom, and on this day, Hugh Auld signed the papers for his freedom
- 1847 - Douglass sails to America
- August 1847 - Douglass joins Garrison on a lecturing tour, and when Garrison falls ill, Douglass continues on without him
- Late 1847 - Douglass first drafts his idea for an anti-slavery paper, and moves to Rochester to publish it
- December 3, 1847 - The first issue of
- 1847 - Douglass meets John Brown, who convinced Douglass that slavery could only be ended in violence
- 1848 - Douglass mortgages his house
- 1848 - Douglass hires a teacher in attemp to teach his wife to read, but fails
- 1848 - Douglass attends the first women's rights convention
- 1848 - Julia Griffiths moves in to help Douglass
- 1848 - Douglass attends a meeting of the Free Soil party
- 1849 - Douglass 5th child, a girl named Annie was born
- 1850 - Douglass was involved in the underground railroad
- 1851 - The North Star is changed to The Frederick Douglass Paper
- 1852 - Griffiths moves out to spare the Douglass's embarassement
- 1857 - After campagning to end segregation in Rochester's school system, Douglass finally succeeded
- 1859 - Douglass refused to join John Brown on in attack on Harpers Ferry, and that was the last time they met
- 1859 - Letters were found that involved Douglass in the attack, he fled to Canada to escape capture
- November 1859 - Douglass set off to lecture in Englad again
- 1860 - The last issue of Douglass' Paper is released
- May 1860 - Douglass' youngest child, Annie, died
- 1864 - Douglass becomes concerned about what will happen to black Americans when they became free, and begins meeting at conventions
- August 1864 - Douglass and Lincoln meet
- 1865 - Official abolishment of slavery
- May 1865 - Douglass states that
- 1865 - Douglass travels and speaks on black suffrage
- February 1866 - Douglass spoke in front of Andrew Johnson
- June 1866 - 14th Ammandment passed
- July 1867 - Douglass is put in charge of Freedman's Bureau by Andrew Johnson
- May 1869 - Douglass believed that Women's suffrage could wait for black suffrage, and tried to comvince the women the same
- 1870 - Douglass began editing for a Washington DC Paper, the New National Era
- 1872 - A fire occurred, destroying Douglass' Rochester home, and he moved to DC
- 1872 - Douglass served as an elector-at-large
- 1874 - Freedmen's Bank failed
- 1877 - Douglass visited St. Michaels, Maryland to see old friends, and Douglass met with his former slave-owner on good terms
- August 1882 - Anna Douglass died
- 1884 - Douglass married Helen Pitts
- February 20, 1895 - Douglass died at the age of 77 due to a heart attack
