Lemuel Haynes and the Revolutionary Origins of Black Theology, 1776-1801
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4939697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Saillant (0000-0003-3724-9101, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-102 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.1992.2.1.03a00040 |
| OpenAlex | W4247160424 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Lemuel Haynes was a black Congregationalist minister to mostly white churches in New England and New York between 1788 and his death in 1833. Abandoned as an infant, Haynes was reared as an indentured servant in a pious white Massachusetts family. He served in the American Revolution in 1774 and 1775 as a Minute Man and in 1776 as a soldier in the march to Fort Ticonderoga. In 1776, Haynes composed an essay, "Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-keeping." After the Revolution, he acquired a reputation among his white contemporaries as an inspiring preacher. In 1788, Haynes accepted a call to minister in Rutland, Vermont, where he served for thirty years before being dismissed, perhaps because he was a black man. While at Rutland, he published a number of essays and sermons, including in 1801The Nature and Importance of True Republicanismand in 1806Universal Salvation. Universal Salvationultimately appeared in seventy editions, fifty-four of them within Haynes's lifetime
Abolitionism · Political science · Politics · Servant · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
Black theology and black power.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism
The African Colonization Movement 1816–1865
The Democratic Dilemma
The Republic Reborn
The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 177-1823
The Spirit of Modern Republicanism
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
Federalists in Dissent
Black Apostles at Home and Abroad
Vermont's Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Record
The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson
Black Prophets of Justice
The Virtues of Liberalism
The Ethnic Contribution to the American Revolution
Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement
Major Black Religious Leaders
The American Revolution
The Lost Soul of American Politics
White Over Black
Proslavery
Lemuel Haynes
The New Divinity and the American Revolution
Unregenerate Doings
To the Hartford Convention
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |