James Hern

Telegraph operator who intercepted a message that the sheriff of Philadelphia was to arrest Frederick Douglass as a suspected accomplice to John Brown. An anti-s;avery advocate, he alerted abolitionist Thomas Dorsey to get word to Douglass, not realizing that Douglass was actually staying with Dorsey.

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The Life of Frederick Dougl...

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