James A. McGowan

Station Master on the Underground Railroad

The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett, rev. ed.

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. This volume includes information on Garrett's relationship with Harriet Tubman and the abolitionist newspaper editor William Lloyd Garrison.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780786442409
• ISBN-10: 0786442409
• Artikelnr.: 25603259

Autorenporträt

The late James A. McGowan appeared on Good Morning America, Evening Magazine, Philadelphia's Prime Time and Visions. He won numerous awards throughout his career. He lived in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword by William C. Kashatus     
Preface     
1. The Underground Railroad     
2. Early Accounts of Garrett's Life     
3. Upper Darby Ancestry     
4. Quakers and Quakerism     
5. The Road to Damascus     
6. The Move to Wilmington     
7. Wilmington     
8. Rachel (Mendinhall) Garrett     
9. The Trial of 1848     
10. Thomas Garrett, the Man     
11. How Important Was Thomas Garrett?     
12. Thomas Garrett and Harriet Tubman     
13. How Many Runaways Did Garrett Assist?     
14. The End of the Line     
15. Letters to William Still & J. Miller McKim     
16. Letters to William Lloyd Garrison     
17. Letters to Eliza Wigham & Mary Edmundson     
18. Miscellaneous Letters     
Appendix A: Thomas Garrett Genealogy     
Appendix B: Letters from John Hunn to The Blue Hen's Chicken     
Appendix C: Letter from Thomas Garrett to The Blue Hen's Chicken     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index