9 Timelines

TIMELINE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S LIFE 1818 Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey is born 1824 Frederick goes to work at the home of his master, Aaron Anthony 1826 Frederick is sent to work for Hugh Auld in the city of Baltimore 1831 Frederick buys his first book, The Columbian Orator 1834 Thomas Auld, Frederick's new master, hires him out to slave breaker Edward Covey 1836 Attempts to escape but is put in jail; returns to Hugh Auld 1838 Escapes dressed as a sailor and changes his name to Frederick Douglass Marries Anna Murray and moves to Massachusetts 1841 Speaks at Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention 1845 Publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, then goes to England for safety 1846 British friends raise money to purchase Frederick's freedom

1847 Moves to Rochester, New York, and starts his own paper, The North Star 1848 Speaks at Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls 1855 Publishes his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom 1860 Campaigns for presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln 1863 Recruits black soldiers for the Union 1868 Campaigns for presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Appointed US marshal of the District of Columbia 1881 Publishes third autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 1884 Marries second wife, Helen Pitts 1889 Appointed US minister to Haiti 1895 Frederick dies of a heart attack on February 20

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1820 The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state 1825 The Erie Canal is completed in New York 1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia 1835 Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales 1836 The siege at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas 1841 The first covered wagons travel westward 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates the telegraph 1845 Potato famine in Ireland 1848 California gold rush begins 1850 Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law 1857 US Supreme Court rules that slaves are not citizens 1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species 1861 US Civil War begins 1863 Emancipation Proclamation takes effect 1865 US Civil War ends 1869 Transcontinental railroad connects the United States from east to west

1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1881 Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross 1884 Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885 The first skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, is completed 1886 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor