An edition of "Dear friend" (1997)

" Dear friend"

Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad

1st ed.
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
October 8, 2017 | History
An edition of "Dear friend" (1997)

" Dear friend"

Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad

1st ed.
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

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

Publish Date
Publisher
Cobblehill Books
Language
English
Pages
119

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: " Dear friend"
Cover of: "Dear friend"

Add another edition?

Book Details


Published in

New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-114) and index.

Genre
Juvenile literature., Biography, Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7/115
Library of Congress
E450 .B46 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
119 p. :
Number of pages
119

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL989680M
Internet Archive
dearfriendthomas00bent
ISBN 10
052565156X
LCCN
96027989
OCLC/WorldCat
34996152
Library Thing
1790067
Goodreads
12797

Work Description

A history of the Underground Railroad as seen through the writings of two conductors. Thomas Garrett was a Quaker storekeeper in Wilmington who led fugitives from slave-holding Delaware to the free state of Pennsylvania. He was a generous, peace-loving man, genuinely concerned about his "passengers." In Philadelphia, fleeing slaves were offered brief sanctuary by William Still, a free black. He was a clerk at the Anti-Slavery Society, and himself the son of a fugitive slave. The two men maintained a steady correspondence, and although Still's letters were destroyed, many of Garrett's letters are quoted here. Still also kept careful records of those he helped, and his accounts are some of the few firsthand records available about the Underground Railroad.

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
October 8, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot merge duplicate works of '"Dear friend"'
August 11, 2011 Edited by ImportBot add ia_box_id to scanned books
April 26, 2011 Edited by OCLC Bot Added OCLC numbers.
April 1, 2011 Edited by ImportBot Found a matching record from Internet Archive .
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record.