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American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition

The General and the Quaker

2/17/2021 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

The friendship between Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett is examined.

The second half hour in the series centers on the profound and loving friendship between Harriett Tubman, the General of The Underground Railroad, and her little known and closest collaborator, A Quaker merchant named Thomas Garrett. The two teamed in a dangerous and daring collaboration to emancipate slaves via the Underground Railroad.

02/17/2021

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American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition is a local public television program presented by GBH

American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition

The General and the Quaker

2/17/2021 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

The second half hour in the series centers on the profound and loving friendship between Harriett Tubman, the General of The Underground Railroad, and her little known and closest collaborator, A Quaker merchant named Thomas Garrett. The two teamed in a dangerous and daring collaboration to emancipate slaves via the Underground Railroad.

02/17/2021

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