Born in Maryland 1818 - Died in Washington D.C in 1895

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Personal Data Employment Awards and Honors Membership-Professional Organizations Publications Professional Interest Areas Major Contributions to Adult Education Interesting Facts Additional Resources References

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Personal Data

 

Born a slave on  Holmes Hill Farm, Talbot County, MD, 1818 to Hariet Bailey and a white man Aaron Anthony.  He married Anna Murray, 1838 they were freed slaves. Fathered five children

 

Education

 

No Formal Education:

Taught to read by his master’s wife Sophia Auld 

Self-taught

 

 

Employment

 

1836-1838            Caulker at a Baltimore Shipyard

1841-1895            Lecturer on the anti-slavery movement and abolitionist

1847-1860            Publisher of weekly newspaper called North Star. Was later named Frederick Douglass Paper

1870                     Owner and editor of The New National Era. A weekly newspaper in Washington D.C.

1871                     Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission

1877-1881            District of Columbia Marshall

1881-1886            District of Columbia recorder of deeds

1889-1891            U.S. Minister and Consul general to Haiti 

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

Vice Presidential Candidate at the Liberal Party Convention

 

Assistant Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry for the annexation of Santo Domingo

 

Consul General to Haiti, appointed by President Harrison

 

Cast the last male vote in support of the Women’s Rights Convention, 1848

 

William Lloyd Garrison mentioned Frederick Douglass in the Liberator 

 

 

 

Membership-Professional Organizations

 

American Anti-Slavery Society

 

Bristol Anti-Slavery Society

 

Equal Rights Party

 

Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment

 

 

Publications

 

1881	Life and times of Frederick Douglass:  His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time
1855	My bondage and my freedom
1845	The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass:  An American slave. (Revised in 1882)

 

  1847-1860                Published newspaper The Northern Star an anti slavery newspaper

 

Professional Interest Areas

 

Anti-Slavery, Lecturer

 

Equal Rights

 

 

Major Contributions to Adult Education

 

Authored and Lectured on Equal Rights

 

Sought to better the lives of African American men and Women.

 

 

Interesting Facts

 

He did not live with his mother, he lived with his grandparents and aunt.

Conferred with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil war and also recruited African Americans to fight for the Union Army. 

 

Additional Resources

 

Articles

 

Photo Gallery

 

Video/Audio

 

 

Presentations

 

Books

 

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References

 

 

Rowser, S. A.  (2000).  Frederick Douglass personal vita.  http://www-distance.syr.edu/pvitafd.html

 

Video http://www.nps.gov/frdo/historyculture/Frederick-Douglass-Chronology.html

 

Frederick Douglas PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

 

Frederick Douglass Biography.com http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324?page=1