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A sympathetic white Evangelical family raised this abandoned mixed child as an indentured servant in West Hartford, Connecticut. Haynes was a soldier in the Continental Army who believed that the American Revolution should have expanded to free slaves. He gives details on this in 1776 with an essay Liberty Further Extended. This pioneering essay was unknown and unpublished until 1983. Haynes was the pastor of several White churches, principally in Rutland, Vermont. He was socially conservative and supported the Federalists politically and the severe “Separatist” within Congregationalism. He published "Universal Salvation" in 1805, a sharp Calvinist assault on Universalism. In 1820, he published "Mystery Developed," a narrative of the famous Boorn murder case. Haynes was apparently the first African-American ordained by a mainstream denomination, in 1785, and the first to receive a college degree, an honorary M.A. from Middlebury College in 1804. Lemuel Haynes died in 1833. Reference: An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage by Marvin Andrew McMickle Judson Press, Copyright 2002 ISBN 0-817014-02-0
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