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On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience. Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in his adopted hometown of Washington, D.C.
In September 1838, 20-year-old slave Frederick Douglass fled his job as a Baltimore shipâs caulker and boarded a train bound for the North. The young bondsman was disguised in a sailorâs uniform provided by his future wife, Anna Murray, and carried a free sailorâs protection pass loaned to him by an accomplice.