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Seventy Years (Boston, 1909). Otto J. Scott, The Secret Six: John Brown and the
Abolitionist Movement (New York, 1979), 69-70, 227-29, 247-49, 296-97, 317;
Robert E. Burkholder, "Franklin Benjamin Sanborn," in The American Renaissance
in New England, ed. Joel Myerson (Detroit, 1978), 160-61; Oates, To Purge This
Land, 181-87, 314-16; ACAB, 5:384; DAB, 16:326-27.

240.20 Thomas J. Dorsey] Thomas Joshua Dorsey (1810-75), one of the leading
caterers in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, was born a slave in Liberty, Maryland. In
1856 William Still, an agent for Philadelphia's Underground Railroad, helped Dorsey
escape there. Abolitionist friends later raised $1,000 to purchase the fugitive's free-
dom. Following his emancipation he married a free woman by the name of Louise
Tobias (?-1879) and established a popular dining establishment on Locust Street,
which served many prominent individuals in the abolitionist movement, including
Charles Stunner, William Lloyd Garrison, and Douglass. Douglass remained good
friends with the Dorseys throughout their lives; in fact Mrs. Dorsey accompanied
Douglass to Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865. Philadelphia Times, 17 October
1896; W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Philadelphia,
1899), 3-4: Roger Lane, William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and
Future of the Black City in America (New York, 1991), 2, 301: John N. Ingham and
Lynne B. Feldman, African-American Business Leaders (Westport, Conn., 1994),
226; Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., Black
Biography, 1790-1950, 3 vols. (Alexandria, Va., 1991), 1:364; ANB, 20:775-76.

240.20 John Hurn] John W. Hurn (1823-87), born in Norwich, England, was a
telegraph operator in Cincinnati and later in Philadelphia. When Douglass was lectur-
ing in Philadelphia in 1859, Hurn suppressed a telegram that ordered Douglass's
arrest for complicity in the Harpers Ferry raid. Instead of delivering the telegram to
the Philadelphia sheriff Hurn alerted Douglass, who fled the city. Hurn later moved
to New Jersey and became a newspaper editor. Douglass to John W. Hurn, 12 June
1882. Frederick Douglass Mss., LNArc; FDP, 28 April 1854; Washington (D.C.)
Evening Star, 21 February 1895; C. S. Williams, Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City
Guide, and Business Mirror; or Cincinnati Illustrated, 1853 (Cincinnati, 1853), 193,
378; Douglass Papers, ser. 1, 2:472; Bessie Bristol Mason, "Louis Jules Gabriel
Boussard Mounier," Vineland Historical Magazine, 23:160 (January 1938).

240.26 Walnut street wharf] Walnut Street in Philadelphia was originally named
Pool Street, because Dock Creek was found at its terminus. Cope's wharf, established
in 1815, was located here. Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 3:2157;
Robert I. Alotta, Street Names of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1975), 142.

240.26 Camden] Camden is a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware
River, across from Philadelphia. Seltzer, Gazetteer of the World, 315-16.

240.30 Franklin Turner] Franklin Turner, a Philadelphia abolitionist, headed the
Committee of Fifty that had invited Douglass to speak in that city in 1854. In 1855
Turner attended and served on the business committee at the national convention of
free blacks held in Philadelphia. In 1860 Turner wrote a public letter condemning