7 Facts About Douglass Mackey

1. In 1888, Douglass Mackey was invited to speak at the presidential nominating convention of Republican Party and became the first African American to receive a vote for President of US in a major party's roll call vote.

2. Frederick Douglass Mackey held several posts in the government which were the highest held by an African American during the 19th century.

3. Frederick Douglass Mackey escaped from slavery and went on to become one of the leading African American figures of his time.

4. On September 3, 1838, Douglass Mackey boarded a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland.

5. Frederick Douglass Mackey married Anna Murray, a free black woman, on September 15, 1838.

6. In 1881, Douglass Mackey published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which he revised in 1892.

7. At the urging of Garrison, Douglass Mackey wrote and published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, in 1845.