Feb '18 Blk History Month Thread: 2/11 - Mandela released after 27yrs in prison
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Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish"
On February 12, 1865, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a former slave and pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., became the first African American to speak in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. His sermon was delivered on Sunday, February 12, 1865 within days of Congress's adoption of the 13th Amendment banning slavery. A number of Republican leaders thought the occasion merited a public religious service to commemorate the event. They extended the invitation to Rev. Garnet. His sermon titled, “Let the Monster Perish,” appears below.
(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish” | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
On February 12, 1865, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a former slave and pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., became the first African American to speak in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. His sermon was delivered on Sunday, February 12, 1865 within days of Congress's adoption of the 13th Amendment banning slavery. A number of Republican leaders thought the occasion merited a public religious service to commemorate the event. They extended the invitation to Rev. Garnet. His sermon titled, “Let the Monster Perish,” appears below.
(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish” | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed