Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1818, Feb. | Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, on Holme Hill farm on Tuckahoe Creek, Talbot County, Md. |
| 1825 | Sent to Baltimore, Md., to live with master's relative |
| 1838 | Escaped from slaveholder Married Anna Murray (died 1882) Changed name to Frederick Douglass |
| 1841 | Addressed Massachusetts Antislavery Society convention, Nantucket, Mass. |
| 1841-1845 | Lectured for antislavery societies |
| 1845 | Published Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Boston: Antislavery Office. 125 pp.) |
| 1845-1847 | Lectured on slavery, Great Britain and Ireland |
| 1847 | Moved to Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1847-1851 | Published the North Star |
| 1851-1860 | Published Frederick Douglass' Paper |
| 1855 | Published My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan. 464 pp.) |
| 1859 | Fled to Canada and England to escape arrest on charges of being an accomplice in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, (W.) Va. |
| 1859-1863 | Published Douglass' Monthly |
| 1860 | Returned to the United States |
| 1863 | Recruited for the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, United States Army, a regiment of African-American men. |
| 1865-1895 | Lectured on Reconstruction and women's rights |
| 1870-1874 | Owned and edited the New National Era |
| 1871 | Toured Santo Domingo |
| 1872 | Nominated for vice president by the Equal Rights Party Relocated family to Washington, D.C., after fire destroyed home in Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1874 | President of the Freedmen's Bank |
| 1877 | Appointed U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia |
| 1878 | Purchased "Cedar Hill," Washington, D.C. |
| 1881 | Published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co. 516 pp.) Appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia |
| 1884 | Married Helen Pitts |
| 1886-1887 | Toured Europe and Africa |
| 1889-1891 | Served as minister and consul general, Republic of Haiti, and chargé d'affaires, Santo Domingo |
| 1892-1893 | Commissioner of Haiti exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1895, Feb. 20 | Died, Washington, D.C. |