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ABOLITIONIST FREDERICK DOUGLASS SAVED FROM MOB BY MADISON MAN.(LOCAL/STATE)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20011015
Author:Dier-Zimmel, Kevin; Miller, Mike

Byline: Mike Miller and Kevin Dier-Zimmel The Capital Times

The memory of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who was instrumental in convincing America of the evils of slaveholding and who would help convince a president to free slaves, was honored over the weekend at events in Dodge and Waukesha counties.

But if not for a Madison man, Douglass' long career as an advocate of rights for blacks and women might well have ended on a September day in 1843 in Indiana, when he was assailed by a mob out to kill him.

Fortunately, William Abijah White was with Douglass on ...

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