Henry Highland Garnet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Highland Garnet

American clergyman and diplomat

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1815

Place of Birth: New Market, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 13-Feb-1882

Profession: diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator.
Having escaped with his family as a child from slavery in Maryland, he grew up in New York City.
He was educated at the African Free School and other institutions, and became an advocate of militant abolitionism.
He became a minister and based his drive for abolitionism in religion. Garnet was a prominent member of the movement that led beyond moral suasion toward more political action.
Renowned for his skills as a public speaker, he urged black Americans to take action and claim their own destinies.
For a period, he supported emigration of American free blacks to Mexico, Liberia, or the West Indies, but the American Civil War ended that effort.
In 1841 he married abolitionist Julia Williams and they had a family.
They moved to Jamaica in 1852 to serve as missionaries and educators.
After the war, the couple worked in Washington, DC. On Sunday, February 12, 1865, he delivered a sermon in the U.S.
House of Representatives, "the first colored man who has on any occasion spoken in our National Capital."