By Victor Trammell Photo credits: James U. Stead, Courtesy Smithsonian Institution In early 1865, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a former slave who rose through the ranks to become the pastor of Washington, D.C.'s Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, gave a stirring sermon. He was the first African-American in the history of the United States to deliver […]

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