Local historians revisit Douglass's fiery 1843 visit
Posted on April 25, 2011 |
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ROKEBY MUSEUM DIRECTOR Jane Williamson spoke about anti-slavery orator Frederick Douglas's 1843 visit to Addison County during a recent talk at Middlebury's Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.
MIDDLEURY — As director of the Rokeby Museum, Jane Williamson knows a lot about how slaves moved covertly from South to North via the Underground Railroad.
But as the nation prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War that would end slavery, Williamson wants people to know what Addison County residents — and national figure Frederick Douglass — did overtly in an effort to end indentured servitude before hostilities began on April 12,1861.
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