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Frederick Douglass in Wisconsin
- Douglass in Madison
[1854]
Douglass spoke to a full house at the Spring Street Congregational Church
on October 31 and at the Court House the following evening to "one of
the largest meetings ever convened in this place."
- Douglass
in Beaver Dam [1856]
During the presidential campaign of 1856, Frederick Douglass addressed
a Dodge County audience in Beaver Dam on October 20. During the afternoon,
Douglass spoke to a crowd of more than 1000 from a lot just to
the east of the former Clark House. That evening he spoke again to an
overflow crowd at the Kilbourne House.
- Douglass in Milwaukee
[1856]
During the presidential campaign of 1856, Douglass spoke on behalf of
John Freemont in Milwaukee on October 20.
- Douglass in Fond du Lac [1856]
Douglass appeared before an enthusiastic crowd at Darling Hall in Fond
du Lac on October 29, 1856, to discuss the origins of slavery.
- Douglass
in Illinois and Wisconsin: Reception in Janesville, Wisconsin, from
the Douglass' Monthly, April, 1859, pp.
448-450
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