Harry

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Harry (died 1854) was an enslaved man, owned by Howard College (later renamed Samford University) president Henry Talibird. He is credited with saving many lives in a fire that destroyed the college's only building on October 15, 1854.

Harry is memorialized in several ways on the Homewood campus of Samford University. A stone plague in the pavement of the Centennial Walk memorializes him. He is also depicted on the university's 1994 mace, remembered in the name of Harry's Coffeehouse in the Ralph Waldo Beeson University Center and memorialized in the Reconciliation Memorial erected in 2020.

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References

Poole, Phillip (October 14, 2014) Samford Recalls “The Midnight Fire” Samford University press release Bains, David (February 13, 2019) Slavery, “Servants,” and Samford Chasing Churches Samford University (June 1, 2020) Reconciliation Memorial Samford University website

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