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He is buried at Section “A” of the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.

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Douglass lived in Rochester, NY for 25 years, longer than anywhere else he had lived in his life.

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His salary in the American Antislavery Society was $450 a year. When slavery was abolished he was paid from $50 to $100 per speech.

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He was a Republican.

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Frederick and Anna Douglass had five children, three sons and two daughters. Rosetta, Lewis Henry, Frederick, Charles Remond and Annie. Their younger daughter, Annie, died when she was 10 years old.

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When he was about 12 years old Douglass bought the Columbian Orator which gave him a new concept of freedom. He bought the journal with the money he earned polishing boots.

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He saw his mother 4 or 5 times in his life. She had to walk 12 miles back and forth to see him and could only do so at night.

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His mother was the only colored woman in Tuckahoe who could read.

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Douglass became the first African American nominated for vice president of the United States as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872.

Nominated without his knowledge or consent, Douglass never campaigned. Nonetheless, his nomination marked the first time that an African American appeared on a presidential ballot.

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, around 1818. The exact year and date of Douglass' birth are unknown, though later in life he chose to celebrate it on February 14.

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Douglass published three versions of his autobiography during his lifetime, revising and expanding on his work each time. My Bondage and My Freedom appeared in 1855. In 1881, Douglass published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which he revised in 1892.

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Famed 19th-century author and orator Frederick Douglass was an eminent human rights leader in the anti-slavery movement and the first African-American citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank.

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Frederick Douglass married Anna Murray, a free black woman, on September 15, 1838. Douglass had fallen in love with Murray, who assisted him in his final attempt to escape slavery in Baltimore.

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Defying a ban on teaching slaves to read and write, Baltimore slaveholder Hugh Auld’s wife Sophia taught Frederick Douglass the alphabet when he was around 12. When Auld forbade his wife to offer more lessons, Douglass continued to learn from white children and others in the neighborhood.

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Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery, he grew up with it, and it was a big part of his biography.