Black Puritan Black Republican

Born in Connecticut Lemuel Haynes was first an indentured servant then a soldier in the Continental Army and in 1785 an ordained congregational minister. Haynes''s writings constitute the fullest record of a black man''s religion social thought and opposition to slavery in the late-18th and early-19th century. Drawing on both published and rare unpublished sources John Saillant here offers the first comprehensive study of Haynes and his thought.