Timeline
February 1818
Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, MD
September 3, 1838
Escape from slavery with future wife Anna Murray
August 16, 1845 – April 1847
Tour to Great Britain and Ireland
December 12, 1846
British supporters Ellen and Anna Richardson purchase Douglass’s legal freedom
December 3, 1847
Publication of newspaper The North Star, later Frederick Douglass’s Paper, then Douglass’s Monthly
July 18-20, 1848
Attends first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York
May 1851
Split from Garrison over interpretation of the Constitution as an anti-slavery document
October 16-18, 1859
John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid
April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865
Civil War
April 15, 1865
Lincoln assassinated
March, 1877
Appointed US Marshal for DC
1878
Purchases Cedar Hill in Anacostia
November 14, 1889 – July 30, 1891
Minister-Resident and Consul-General to Haiti
February 20, 1895
Death
