{"id":61159,"date":"2021-08-01T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61159"},"modified":"2021-08-01T22:53:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:53:51","slug":"lemuel-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61159","title":{"rendered":"Lemuel Haynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vermonthistory.org\/lemuel-haynes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Lemuel Haynes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vermonthistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vermont History<\/a><br \/>\nVermont Historical Society<br \/>\nBarre, VT<br \/>\n2019-10-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steve.perkins@vermonthistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steve Perkins<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iki_w8jl634\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lemuel_Haynes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemuel Haynes<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rutland_(town),_Vermont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rutland, Vermont<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congregational_church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congregational Church<\/a> in the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and led a mostly white congregation for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/vermonthistory.org\/lemuel-haynes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,459,8,820,20,842],"tags":[31672,31677,31674,2618,31675,31676],"class_list":["post-61159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-videos","tag-lemuel-haynes","tag-rutland","tag-steve-perkins","tag-vermont","tag-vermont-historical-society","tag-vermont-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61160,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61159\/revisions\/61160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}