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Titles: Speech by Henry Highland Garnet
Address to the Slaves of The United States of America
Minutes of the National Convention of Colored Citizens
Creator/Author: Garnet, Henry Highland
Description: A speech calling on slaves to refuse to work for their masters and to die rather than live as slaves.
Primary Source Publication Date: 1/1/1843
Secondary Source Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Secondary Source Publication Date: 1/1/91
Subject Keywords: Place - West Indies
Amistad African - Cinque
Vessel - Amistad
Other Person - Creole
Other Keyword - Revolt
Other Keyword - Abolition
Courtesy of: University of North Carolina Press, Permission granted 12.1.97



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