1837 LEMUEL HAYNES. Memoir of Lemuel Haynes - Black Revolutionary War and Early Minister. Rare! Hymns With Illustrations by W

With Illustrations by W

and His presence filled our souls to their depths

A New Dance by Renousy

given to a rigid church discipline

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1837 LEMUEL HAYNES. Memoir of Lemuel Haynes - Black Revolutionary War and Early Minister. Rare! Hymns With Illustrations by WVery rare in the first edition, with the only other example on the market at the time of cataloging offered at more than four times our price. Lemuel Haynes [b. 1753] is generally considered the first African American ordained by a mainstream Protestant Church in the United States. Abandoned as a "mixed race" child of an African father and "a white woman of respectable ancestry," he was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and bound to service until the