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Thomas Garrett, called Delaware's greatest humanitarian, helped more than 2,700 enslaved people escape to freedom during a forty-year career as a station master on the Underground Railroad. His abolitionist work, together with the Quaker congregation of the Friends Meeting House in Wilmington, helped make Wilmington an important gateway on the freedom trail. He assisted Harriet Tubman on her many journeys by giving her food, clothing, shelter, and money. In 1848 he was convicted of violating the federal Fugitive Slave Law, heavily fined, and forced into bankruptcy. He devoted his life to the abolitionist cause, openly defying slave hunters and the slave system.
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Wilmington, Delaware · United States
