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		Sales 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
Mary  		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 post and returns home