Slideshow Credits: The Basil Dorsey Story

Thank you to the following parties for use of their images.

2. Sollers plantation
3. Sollers plantation
4. Dorsey Route Map created by the Ruggles Center.
5. Purvis (young) image Daguerreotype, Boston Public Library
6. Basil Dorsey discharged article 1837, 8-3 Pennsylvania Freeman Basil Dorsey ?? or (look in Laurie,Rebels,54)
7. Joshua Leavitt image in chair by Matthew B. Brady & Studio circa 1860
8. Ruggles detail from the cartoon Courtesy of Periodyssey (www.periodyssey.com) – The Disappointed abolitionist- cartoon by Edward.W Clay, 1838
9. Joshua Leavitt House in Charlemont
11. Image of Louisa Dorsey grave
12. Bensonville Lots – drawing
13. Basil Dorsy House Nonotuck – photo
14. Basil Dorsey census detail Federal Census Form, 1850. Census: “Free Inhabitants in Northampton in the County of Hampshire, State of Massachusetts”. August 10, 1850.
15. Newspaper Clipping- fugitive slave call to action Public letter printed in Gazette (1850)
16. 4 Florence Rd image photo
17. Basil Dorsey gravestone
18. Thomas Dorsey- a welll known caterer in Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of Charles L Blockson Collection.
19. Basil Dorsey bill of sale newspaper image— Source: Northampton Courier, May 20 and Aug. 5, 1851.
20. NAEI cotton/silk mill