Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett - Wilmington, Delaware
Posted by: flyingmoose
N 39° 44.209 W 075° 33.167
18S E 452634 N 4398693
A statue dedicated to two pivotal figures in the Underground Railroad.
Waymark Code: WM1AYGQ
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2024
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Statue: This bronze statue has Harriet and Thomas seemingly riding a wave along with two slaves and a baby. Harriet Tubman is wearing a dress and head wrap while holding a baby in both arms. Thomas Garrett is wearing a suit, storm jacket, and a top hat while holding a lamp in his right hand and holding his left hand out in front. The two slaves are behind Harriet Tubman and wearing few articles of clothing. They are of course being helped by the two who are the focus of the statue and who saved many slaves through the Underground Railroad.
Statue Text (short bio):
Harriet Tubman
Born on Maryland's eastern shore, Harriet Tubman's family of eleven suffered the indignities of violence and division common to the institution of slavery. Harriet escaped from slavery following the death of her owner in 1849. Over the course of 10 years, with the help of Thomas Garrett and other abolitionists, she led hundreds of slaves along the Underground Railroad through Wilmington to freedom in New York, New England and Canada, earning the title of the "Moses of her people". During the Civil War, she was a cook and a nurse and became a spy and armed scout for the federal forces, helping to liberate more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. Tubman died in 1913 at her home in Auburn, NY.
Thomas Garrett has been called Delaware's greatest humanitarian and is credited with helping more than 2,700 slaves escape to freedom in a forty-year long career as a station master of the Underground Railroad. His abolitionist activities, along with the Quaker congregation from the Friends Meeting House in Wilmington, helped to make Wilmington an important gateway on the freedom trail. Garrett helped Harriet Tubman on her many journeys, giving her food, clothing, shelter, and money. He was convicted of violating the federal Fugitive Slave Law in 1848 and heavily fined and forced into bankruptcy. Garrett devoted his life to the abolitionist cause, openly defying slave hunters, as well as the slave system.
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