Witchflower Days: On This Day in Wisconsin

Thursday, October 20, 2005

On This Day in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin: On this day in 1856 Frederick Douglass arrived in Beaver Dam to speak about the brutality and immorality of slavery, intending to generate support for the abolitionist movement in Dodge County and Wisconsin. A former runaway slave and leading orator and author of the abolitionist... Sign in to see full entry.

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