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Making of the modern world coursework: Analysis of Henry Highland Garnets speech - 'Let your motto be resistance
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Gawain Williams page one (1/4) Making of the modern world coursework: Analysis of Henry Highland Garnets speech - 'Let your motto be resistance The source is an extract from the speech 'Let your motto be resistance' which was given by Henry Highland Garnet in 1843 to the National convention of Coloured citizens of buffalo in response to an argument from Frederick Douglass (Stuckley, 1982, 193), in an attempt to emphasise the need for a black slave resistance in order to end slavery, as opposed to relying on white abolitionists. Henry Highland Garnet was born into slavery in 1816, when slaves were under increasingly repressive measures in order to prevent slaves rising as they had in the 'Barbados revolt of 1815' (Carton, 1985, 205). In 1825 Garnet and his family were able to escape slavery and fled to new York where for the first time garnet saw large parades by a united black community...
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