He developed his published slave narrative into an anti-slavery stage show. Other prominent members of this movement included minister Daniel Payne, J. Sella Martin, Rufus L. Perry, Henry M. Wilson, and Amos N. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letter in Support of Women’s Suffrage, December 26, 1865. Reason founded and was executive secretary of the New York Political Improvement Association, which won for fugitive slaves the right to a jury trial in the state. In 1852, Garnet traveled to Jamaica to serve as a missionary. He also supported allowing Black people to immigrate to other lands, such as Liberia in Africa, a country made up mostly of freed slaves. As described by Alexander Crummell: [T]ey buried him like a prince, this princely man, with the blood of a long line of chieftains in his veins, in the soil of his fathers. On February 12, 1865, Garnet became the first black person to deliver a sermon in the House of Representatives where he uttered the words quoted in the second paragraph of this article. "[2] According to James McCune Smith, Garnet's father was George Trusty and his enslaved mother was "a woman of extraordinary energy. Henry Highland Garnet launched the African Civilization Society in the fall of 1858 to promote black settlement in West Africa. In 1881, he was appointed United States Minister and Counsel General (a position equivalent to ambassador today) in Liberia, and died there a few months later, on February 13, 1882. Al Sharpton is an outspoken and sometimes controversial political activist, working to lead the fight against racial prejudice and injustice. She was widowed in 1882. She was a founder of the Equal Suffrage Club, a group of black women in Brooklyn who worked for political rights for women. When Henry would preach against slavery he would bring up Stella. Unfortunately, his time in Africa was short. 14. However, they were not there long when the family came down with yellow fever. Freeman. Garnet died on February 13, 1882, only a few months after his arrival. Analysis of the article reveals the Copperheads were opposed to the participants in the Convention. In the 1840s, he became an abolitionist. The date was 150 years ago, Feb. 12, While Henry Highland Garnet’s radicalism is often noted because of his fiery speech, ‘An Address to the Slave of the United States’, in an 1843 convention, historians have overlooked his wife Julia Williams Garnet whose experiences with violence informed the couple’s radicalism and advocacy for urgent action. The Garnett School built at 10th and U, NW in Washington, DC was named in his honor in 1880. Garnet disagreed with the later Republicans. After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry of 1859, Garnett in a sermon "declared [it] to be the duty of every man who loved the cause of freedom to declare that the Harper's Ferry movement was right, and that any one who would not say so boldly had much better say nothing at all. 13. Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, ON INDEPENDENT LIBERIA, NORTH STAR, 2 MARCH 1849, Excerpt. The President and his cabinet, the ministry of every name, the president, professors and students of the college, large bodies of citizens from the river settlement, as well as the townsmen, attended his obsequies as mourners. [11], When the Civil War started, Garnet's hopes ended for emigration as a solution for American blacks. 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