Henry Highland Garnet, An Address to the Slaves of the United States (1843)

Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882), grandson of a Malinke leader enslaved and transported to the American colonies, as a child escaped enslavement on a Maryland plantation with his family and found his way to freedom in New York City. Educated there, in New England, and in upstate New York, he became an abolitionist writer-activist, publisher, and … More Henry Highland Garnet, An Address to the Slaves of the United States (1843)