alists'
Convention at Philadelphia.

1869 [1870]

Moved to Washington, District of Columbia. Established [Edited and
then bought] the _New National Era_.

1870

Appointed secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission by President
Grant.

1872

Appointed councillor of the District of Columbia. [Moved family there
after a fire (probably arson) destroyed their Rochester home and
Douglass's newspaper files.] Elected presidential elector of the State
of New York, and chosen by the electoral college to take the vote to
Washington.

1876

Delivered address at unveiling of Lincoln statue at Washington.

1877

Appointed Marshal of the District of Columbia by President Hayes.

1878

Visited his old home in Maryland and met his old master.

1879

Bust of Douglass placed in Sibley Hall, of Rochester University. Spoke
against the proposed negro exodus from the South.

1881

Appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.

1882

_January._ Published _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_, the third
and last of his autobiographies. _August 4._ Mrs. Frederick Douglass
died.

1884

_February 6._ Attended funeral of Wendell Phillips. _February 9._
Attended memorial meeting and delivered eulogy on Phillips. Married
Miss Helen Pitts.

1886

_May 20._ Lectured on John Brown at Music Hall, Boston.

_September 11._ Attended a dinner given in his honor by the Wendell
Phillips Club, Boston.

_September._ Sailed for Europe.

Visited Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, 1886-87.

1888

Made a tour of the Southern States.

1889

Appointed United States minister resident and consul-general to the
Republic of Hayti and _charge d'affaires_ to Santo Domingo.

1890

_September 22._ Addressed abolition reunion at Boston.

1891

Resigned the office of minister to Hayti.

1893

Acted as commissioner for Hayti at World's Columbian Exposition.

1895

_February 20._ Frederick Douglass died at his home on Anacostia
Heights, near Washington, District of Columbia.

In a few places in the text of _Frederick Douglass_, bracketed words
have been inserted to indicate possible typographical errors, other
unclear or misleading passages in the 1899 original edition, and
identifications that were not needed in 1899 but may be needed in the
twenty-first century.

I.

If it be no small task for a man of the most favored antecedents and
the most fortunate surroundings to rise above