ABSTRACT
A radical abolitionist who urged the slaves to rise, Henry Highland Garnet became interested in emigration and became the founder of the African Civilization Society. His writings include An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, 1843, and The Past and the Present Condition and the Destiny of the Colored Race, 1848. The Red men of North America are retreating from the approach of the white man. They have fallen like trees on the ground in which they first took root, and on the soil which their foliage once shaded. But the Colored race, although they have been transplanted in a foreign land, have clung to and grown with their oppressors, as the wild ivy entwines around the trees of the forest, nor can they be torn thence. Skillful men have set themselves to work at analyzation, and in many cases they are perplexed in deciding where to draw the line between the Negro and the Anglo-Saxon.
