(RELIGION) Garnet Henry Highland Memorial Discourse Delivere

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(RELIGION.) Garnet, Henry Highland. Memorial Discourse, Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Washington City, D.C. on Sabbath, February 12, 1865 With an Introduction by James McCune Smith, MD. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Garnett. 91 pages. Tall 8vo, original gilt and blind-stamped black cloth (both front and rear boards), all edges gilt; some very slight wear to the spine extremities. Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1865

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first edition of the first sermon ever delivered before the House of Representatives by an African American. Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) clergyman, abolitionist, editor, temperance leader and diplomat, was born a slave in New Market, Maryland. His grandfather was said to have been a chief of the Mandingo people of West Africa. When Garnet was eight years old, he and his father escaped to New York where the father, a shoemaker, found employment and enrolled young Henry in the African School No. 1. Garnet became a minister and later a major abolitionist. He was one of the first, and loudest black voices calling for the use of colored troops after the onset of the Civil War. Garnet was appointed minister to Liberia in January of 1882, but died shortly thereafter in Liberia.