United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)

Thomas Garrett was a Quaker and a known conductor of the Underground Railroad. In 1848 he and fellow Quaker John Hunn were brought to trial by two slaveowners on charges of harboring and aiding fugitive slaves. The defendants were found guilty by the U.S. Circuit Court in Delaware, presided over by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who ten years later would deliver the landmark Dred Scott Decision. Harriet Beecher Stowe cites Garrett's 1848 trial as inspiration for some scenes in her influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

From the description of Thomas Garrett Trial Notes: Notes of Evidence from 1848 Trial of Thomas Garrett, 1848 May 26. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 554921649