Henry Highland Garnet
Another prominent abolitionist who made strides in the academic setting was Henry Highland Garnet. He was born to enslaved parents in Maryland on December 23, 1815. He joined his parents to launch an escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad and moved to live in New York City, according to Zinn Education Project. He started his academic journey at the Noyes Academy in New Hampshire until the school was vandalized by white protestors in 1835.
He was noted for advocating forceful slave revolt against slaveholders of the South. He used his role as a minister in 1843 to preach against social injustice and racial abuses at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, New York.
