"Let the monster perish": the historic address to Congresses of Henry Highland Garnet (First edition.)

"In 1865 Presbyterian pastor and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet was the first African American to speak before the U.S.

Congress. Garnet's speech, titled "Let the Monster Perish," celebrated the end of slavery and pleaded with humanity to never let it rise again.

His address is reproduced here along with a time line of his life"--.