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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 331 Print image (45K) |
| Another Eastern Shore slave who proved to be much more radical than Frederick Douglass was the Reverend Henry Highland Garnet, an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, and ex-slave. Garnet was "born a slave at (East) New Market, Maryland, (in Dorchester County) and escaped to the North in 1824". 56 Very little is known about his early years, other than the fact that he was the grandson of a Mandigo chieftain. 57 When he was ten, Garnet was reportedly taken from slavery by his father under the pretense of "driving his covered wagon to a funeral and succeeded in carrying his family and a few friends to Wilmington, Delaware and freedom", 58 and the family eventually settled in New York. Garnet "entered a New York African Free School—one of the first public schools for blacks in the United States".59 He received the early sting of racism at the "age of nineteen, (when) he journeyed to Canaan, New Hampshire, to study at a summer session of the Canaan Academy." 60 He had been invited by the principal to attend the school, but "his studies were cut short by the violent reaction of the Canaan townspeople,"61 who "destroyed the school." 62 "Garnet was also educated at Oneida Institute" 63 where he established a reputation as a good debater," 64 and was known as an eloquent , but fiery orator. This transplant from the Eastern Shore of Maryland became a school teacher, and taught at the first public |