Henry Highland Garnet

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• Henry Highland Garnet — (December 23, 1815 ndash; February 13, 1882) was an African American abolitionist and orator. An advocate of militant abolitionism, Garnet was a prominent member of the abolition movement that led against moral suasion toward more political… …   Wikipedia

• Garnet, Henry Highland — born 1815, New Market, Md., U.S. died Feb. 13, 1882, Liberia U.S. clergyman and abolitionist. Born a slave, he escaped in 1824 to New York, where he became a Presbyterian minister. He joined the American Anti Slavery Society and agitated for… …   Universalium

• Garnet Baltimore — Garnet Douglass Baltimore (April 15, 1859 – June 12, 1946) was an African American engineer and a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, Class of 1881. He was named for two prominent abolitionists, Henry Highland Garnet… …   Wikipedia

• Henry Garnet —  Cette page d’homonymie répertorie différentes personnes partageant un même nom. Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882) était un abolitionniste et orateur afro américain né dans le comté de Kent, dans le Maryland, aux États Unis. Henry Garnet… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Garnet, Henry Highland — (1815, New Market, Md., EE.UU.–13 feb. 1882, Liberia). Clérigo y abolicionista estadounidense. Nacido esclavo, en 1824 huyó a Nueva York, donde se hizo ministro presbiteriano. Ingresó a la Sociedad contra la esclavitud e hizo campaña en favor de… …   Enciclopedia Universal

• Garnet — /gahr nit/, n. Henry Highland, 1815 82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist. * * * Any of a group of common silicate minerals with identical crystal structure but highly variable chemical composition. Garnets are most often found in metamorphic rocks …   Universalium

• henry — /hen ree/, n., pl. henries, henrys. Elect. the SI unit of inductance, formally defined to be the inductance of a closed circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt is produced when the electric current in the circuit varies uniformly at a …   Universalium

• Henry — /hen ree/, n. 1. Joseph, 1797 1878, U.S. physicist. 2. O., pen name of William Sydney Porter. 3. Patrick, 1736 99, American patriot, orator, and statesman. 4. Cape, a cape in SE Virginia at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. 5. Fort. See …   Universalium

• Henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * …   Enciclopedia Universal

• henry — ► sustantivo masculino ELECTRICIDAD Denominación del henrio en la nomenclatura internacional. IRREG. plural henrys * * * henrio o henry (de J. Henry, físico inglés) m. Fís. Unidad de inductancia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional. * * * henry …   Enciclopedia Universal