Station Master On The Underground Railroad

The Life And Letters Of Thomas Garrett, Revised Edition

BY JAMES MCGOWAN

Brief Description:
Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. Unlike most other white abolitionists who viewed slavery in more abstract and constitutional terms, Garrett, like free black abolitionists and the slaves themselves, saw slavery in very personal terms. He believed so strongly in the Underground Railroad and in helping slaves escape that he chafed under the Quaker belief in non-violence when force seemed to be the only way to win freedom for the slaves he was trying to help. When he died in 1871, Wilmington's black community saluted him as "their Moses." This present edition has been revised.

McFarlnad & Company 2005 226 PP. Cloth

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