{"id":61214,"date":"2021-08-12T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61214"},"modified":"2021-08-12T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:29:13","slug":"black-puritan-black-republican-the-life-and-thought-of-lemuel-haynes-1753-1833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61214","title":{"rendered":"Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford University Press<\/a>
\n2002-12-12
\n248 pages
\n9.04 x 6.84 x 0.9 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0195157178
\nDOI: 10.1093\/0195157176.001.0001<\/a><\/p>\n

John Saillant<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English and History
\nWestern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, British and American men and women began criticizing the slave trade<\/a> and slavery as violations of the principles of Christianity, natural rights<\/a>, and political security. A black spokesman for abolitionism<\/a> was Lemuel Haynes<\/a> (1753\u20131833), one of the first African Americans to publish. Haynes served as a minuteman<\/a> in the American War of Independence<\/a> and began writing against the slave trade and slavery in the 1770s. After ordination in a Congregational church<\/a>, he assumed a pulpit in Rutland, Vermont<\/a>, where he became a leading controversialist<\/a>, defender of the theology of Jonathan Edwards<\/a>, and interpreter of republican ideology<\/a>. He was dismissed from his pulpit in 1818, because his affiliation to the Federalist Party<\/a> and his opposition to the War of 1812<\/a> offended his congregation. The last 15 years of his life were characterized by pessimism about the ability of Americans of the early republic to defeat racism as well as by a defense of Puritanism<\/a>, which he believed could guide the creation of a free, harmonious, and integrated society.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n