Henry Garnet
...African American society. The friends he met at the school later formed the Garrison Literary and Benevolent Association, but was later ended by their school because of racist feelings form people in the community. He then attended a black and white school for men and women, Noyes Academy. There, he and his friends delivered speeches to abolition groups, which later led to violence from people from the town. The people destroyed the school and drive away the blacks that were in the area with violence and threats. At age 12, he spent two years at sea to cook and steward a ship. When he got back to New York he went to work on a farm, where he was tutored. In the year of 1840, a terrible thing happened to Henry. While playing sports, he injured his knee, which never recovered from injury and had to be amputated. He graduated from Oneida Theological Institute, an all black school, in 1840 and then served as a pastor in a church for four years. The next year, Garnet married and had three children one of which died. During the time as a pastor, he became the first black minister to preach to the House of Representatives and he joined an abolitionist group called the American Anti Slavery Society. At one particular abolitionist conference, Garnet delivered one of his most famous speeches, “Call to Rebellion to the National Negro Convention. In the speech, he called upon slaves to take action and gain their own freedom and fight to be a free man rather than a slave. His speech moved many people in the audience ,but also caused oppositon from Frederick Douglass, who opposed the speech. Around 1849, Garnet started thinking about black seperation in other countries, like Mexico and Liberia where they could have a better life. From 1850 to 1852, Henry lectured to groups in Great Britain and Jamaica about abolition and political views. When the Civil War began, Garnet began thinking a...