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Henry Highland Garnet. Photo by James U. Stead, ca. 1881.

[adapted from Wikipedia]
Henry Highland Garnet (1815 – 1882) was an American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was a prominent member of the movement that advocated militant abolitionism. Renowned for his skills as a public speaker, he urged black Americans to take action and claim their own destinies.

In February 1865, he delivered a sermon in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first African American to speak in that chamber, on the occasion of Congress's passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery.

In 1868, Garnet was appointed president of Avery College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Later he returned to New York City as a pastor at the Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Harlem, and provided support to the Cuban independence movement.

In 1881, Garnet was appointed Ambassador to Liberia, but died in February 1882 of malaria. He was given a state funeral by the Liberian government.

Photo credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Taken on: October 24, 2006
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