A Lecture on Abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet
Tuesday, October 3, 2023. 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM ET
Sumner Hall – 206 S. Queen St. Chestertown MD
Organized by the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Join the Starr Center at Sumner Hall (the last functioning Grand Army of the Republic African American Civil War veteran meeting hall), for a lecture on Henry Highland Garnet. Garnet was a prominent reverend, orator and abolitionist in the 19th century. He was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, the 1st African American to deliver a speech in the chambers of the US House of Representatives, the US Ambassador to Liberia, and he was born into slavery here in Kent County Maryland. The lecture will be given by the Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Anna Mae Duane. Dr. Duane is the Author of Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation, which tells the stories of Garnet and his boyhood friend James McCune Smith, the 1st African American to earn a medical degree.