Lemuel Haynes
By
John C Abercrombie
Lemuel Haynes – Black Calvinist minister to White congregations for 30 years. Worked against slavery. First African American awarded an honorary advanced degree. He was honored with the degree by Middleton College.
Lemuel Haynes was born to a White woman and a Black man. Abandoned at an early age, when he was found, he became an indentured slave until the age of 21.
Although he only had a basic education, he developed a love of books and studied the Bible and theology. He conducted services in the town parish and even wrote his own sermons.
When his indenture ended at the age of 21, he became a free man and thus eligible to enlist in the militia. He immediately enlisted in the local militia and became a Minuteman.
In 1774 Haynes joined the minutemen of Granville and in 1775, he marched to Roxbury, Massachusetts after the battle of Lexington and Concord. In 1776, he fought at Fort Ticonderoga. Here, he contacted typhus and had to return home.
Haynes had an opportunity to attend Dartmouth College, but turned it down because of his love of the bible and the ability to study with a clergyman in Connecticut.
Lemuel Haynes was licensed to preach in 1780 and became a minister in 1785. He was the first African American ordained in USA.
Haynes developed an international reputation as a preacher and writer. In 1804, he received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Middlebury College, becoming the first Black in the country to receive an advanced degree.
His last appointment was in Manchester, Vermont, a pleasant town on the west side of the Green Mountains, where he counseled two brothers convicted of murder, and sentenced to hang for the murder of a local man.
Convinced of their innocence, Haynes took on their cause visiting them daily in prison. They narrowly escaped hanging when the alleged “victim” reappeared.
Haynes’s writings on the seven-year ordeal became a bestseller for a decade.
Following that success, he accepted the position as pastor of the Congregational Church in South Granville where he served until his death in 1833.
A manuscript written around 1776 states Haynes views on slavery. “That an African … has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” This manuscript condemns slavery as a sin and points out the irony of slaveowners fighting for their own liberty while denying it to others.
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Books about Lemuel Haynes
Lemuel Haynes: The Black Puritan
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Home Office Supplies
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May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes (Profiles in Reformed Spirituality)
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Coffee Maker
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Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, and Late in Granville, New York (Classic Reprint)
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Electronic Keyboard
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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Tea
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Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White
ABH – History in Black and White
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Robot Vacuum
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The Colored Patriots Of The American Revolution:
With Sketches Of Several Distinguished Colored Persons, To Which Is Added A Brief Survey Of The Condition And Prospects Of Colored Americans
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Military Fatigues for Women
ABH – Military Fatigues for Women
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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First Aid Kit
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This Place in History: Lemuel Haynes
Lemuel Haynes of Rutland, Vermont was an incredible Vermonter. Haynes, an African-American man, was a great writer, thinker, and minister. In 1785, he was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to be ordained into the Congregational Church in the whole United States and led a mostly white congregation for over 30 years.
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Thabiti Anyabwile on Ministry Heroes Thabiti Anyabwile shares his two ministry heroes. His hero in history is Lemuel Haynes, the first ordained black clergyman in the United States, a fiery preacher with deep doctrine and a keen approach to the social issues of his day. His hero of today is pastor Peter Rochelle, the pastor who discipled him and modeled faithful exposition.
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LEMUEL HAYNES, Black Christian You Should Know
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Preaching Abolition – Lemuel Haynes Breaks Barriers
Lemuel Haynes was the first Person of Color to receive a license to preach in the United States.
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LEMUEL HAYNES: A FORGOTTEN FOUNDING FATHER ~ Pastor Garry Clark
In this video message, Pastor Garry Clark looks at another of America’s Forgotten Founding Fathers, a man named Lemuel Haynes! You may not have heard of him, but he was one of first outspoken ‘black men’ to fight for the Declaration Of Independence’s “All Men Are Created Equal” statement…
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Episode 7: Lemuel Haynes on the Fruit of Regeneration
Today we discuss Lemuel Haynes, the first black pastor in America! Remembered as the “black puritan,” we examine his life and ministry as a Congregationalist minister in the Reformed and Evangelical tradition of Jonathan Edwards.
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We have seen another example of a man’s dedication to a cause. Serving others and preaching the gospel. It is difficult to understand those who are repelled by the color of a person’s skin rather than their work and heart.