---
title: 'Call for the Convention'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Henry Highland Garnet'
date: 1865-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'Citizenship and Government'
scriptures:
- 'Leviticus 25'
- 'Isaiah 61'
- 'Proverbs 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/garnet-1865-call-for-the-convention
---

# Call for the Convention

Henry Highland Garnet's 1865 memorial discourse and 1844 convention extracts urging Black enfranchisement through education, land ownership, agriculture, and moral uplift.

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