Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. He believed strongly in

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The case of David Powell and family, slaves of John Norris of Boone Co., KY, who had escaped across the Ohio River in 1847 and were apprehended by Norris and fr

Describes what it was like for slaves escaping to freedom, how slaves received help from people on the way, and how they found out about the trails to the North

Based on correspondence between William Still and Thomas Garrett demonstrating the efforts of these two men to help slaves to freedom.