"Let the Monster Perish": The Historic Address to Congress of Henry Highland Garnet - Softcover

Garnet, Henry Highland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664266290 ISBN 13: 9780664266295

Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press, 2020

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""In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave who came to a Capitol without a Dome to tell how the Constitution could be made more perfect, in the name of God."" —from a letter sent by the President of the Presbyterian Historical Society to the President of the Maryland State Senate In February 1865, just days after the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery, Presbyterian pastor and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet spoke before the U.S. Congress, becoming the first African American to do so. Garnet's speech, titled ""Let the Monster Perish,"" celebrated the end of slavery and pleaded with humanity to never let it rise again. Garnet's address would later set the tone for Congressional Reconstruction, providing the important and necessary perspective from those whose voices had been excluded from American democracy. His address is reproduced here along with a time line of his life.

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Henry Highland Garnet(December 23, 1815-February 13, 1882) was an African American abolitionist and Presbyterian pastor. Educated at the African Free School, he based his drive for abolitionism in religion and became a prominent member of the movement. In 1865, he became the first African American invited to speak in the U.S. Capitol.

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• Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0664266290
• ISBN 13: 9780664266295
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 46
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