Thomas Garret was a QuakerAbolitionist and a notable "stationmaster" of the Underground Railroad. He helped Harriet Tubman in her escape from slavery, and remained friends with her in later life. He started off in life as a man with a vision. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists. ... Harriet Tubman in 1880 Harriet Tubman (born 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, died March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, was an African-American freedom fighter. ... A monument celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, erected in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, London Look up Slavery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Slavery can mean one or more related conditions which involve control of a person against his or her will, enforced by...
ThomasGarret (or Garrard) was a curate to Roger Forman, rector of All Hallows church in Cheapside, London.
Garret was already being watched for his preaching which included `reformist` phrases that faith alone would save man. However, having access to these forbidden books, he was stimulated to read them and become not only student, librarian and preacher, but also trader.
Garret hastened westward, hoping to make the security of Wales but at Hinksey, not far from Oxford he was taken and brought back to imprisonment.
The Herb Garret is the garret of St Thomas Church, Southwark.
It was called the Herb Garret in 1821 when the Grand Committee of the hospital ordered that an operating theatre be built in the garret of the church to serve the patients of St Thomas' Hospital, Southwark.
In 1862, the hospital moved, and the Herb Garret and Operating Theatre were closed down.
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