Mary's friends

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Thank you! It was the Blackburn connection that I was trying to think of.

I did remember the connection to Tubman and should have mentioned it. I believe that some of the slaves that she "transported" to freedom in Canada created settlements that abolitionists in the U.S. used as examples of how freedmen could survive on their own. Was this also the region where Julia Ward Howe's husband, one of the Secret Six supporters of John Brown, fled after the failed raid on Harpers Ferry?

P.S. Perhaps Clay should have practiced better self-hygiene to improve his health...