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Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882)
Henry Highland Garnet was an antislavery crusader and in his later years served his country in appointed office. Garnet was born in 1815 a slave in Maryland. He escaped with his parents to Pennsylvania when he was nine and graduated from Oneida Institute in 1840. He spent much time speaking out against slavery. In 1843, he made his famous speech at the Free Colored People Convention in Buffalo, during which he called for a general strike. Garnet, a pastor as well as a political activist, continued to fight for anti-slavery until the Civil War abolished it once and for all.
After the Civil War, Garnet was a pastor in Washington and New York, president of Avery College in Pittsburgh and U. S. Minister to Liberia.
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