Andrew Harris -- 1814-1841 -- First African American Graduate of The University of Vermont, 1838 -- Abolitionist & Advocate of Black Equality

We consider it criminal in the sight of God and man, longer silently to submit to our indignities, or suffer them to be transmitted to posterity. Andrew Harris was one of the first African Americans to earn a college degree. The antislavery journal Liberator stated he was probably the most educated colored man in our country. He was a featured speaker at the 1839 meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Harris was one of the founders of the American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, a delegate to the first convention of the Liberty Party, and pastor of the 2nd African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. He died at age 27.