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