Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett

by James A. McGowan

Book Overview

Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. He believed strongly in the Underground Railroad and in helping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786417609
• ISBN13: 9780786417605
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Who's for Abolition? I am!

Garrett, like so many in his fambly, was one of the unsung heroes of the American experiment. Which has failed, I hate to say it but we should all pack up our things and join other countries. But before it failed men like Garrett, and so many in his fambly, showed the truest, farthest measure of human goodness. And, somehow, managed to make a buck doing it. Don't ask me how, I don't know. Perhaps their decadent addiction to the capitalist system would result in those they championed, those they freed, and those they loved, finding oppression even after emancipation. Way to go. All the same, though, they did a lot better than most people. Most of those dead people were bastards. Especially in the South.