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 February 20, 1895: Dies in Washington, D.C. ...
