The speech by Garnet is in support of the following resolution: “That all the rights and immunities of American citizens are justly due to the people of color, who ever have been, and still are willing to contribute their full share to enrich and to defend our common country.” (Liberator, May 22, 1840)
Henry Highland Garnet, on Citizen Rights for Colored People
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