Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833Oxford University Press, 2002 M12 12 - 248 pages 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 Drawing on both published and rare unpublished sources, John Saillant here offers the first comprehensive study of Haynes and his thought. |
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... argues that his hagiographers misrepresented him. Rooted in the eighteenth ... Haynes accepted a Calvinist form of Christianity. Indeed, Calvinism seems to ... believed was the religion of West African slave-traders. This study argues ...
... argues that his hagiographers misrepresented him. Rooted in the eighteenth ... Haynes accepted a Calvinist form of Christianity. Indeed, Calvinism seems to ... believed was the religion of West African slave-traders. This study argues ...
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... Haynes argued that sentiment must unite the races if republicanism and Calvinism were to exist coherently, while leading whites argued that blacks must be expatriated so that the new nation would be free of black-and-white conflict ...
... Haynes argued that sentiment must unite the races if republicanism and Calvinism were to exist coherently, while leading whites argued that blacks must be expatriated so that the new nation would be free of black-and-white conflict ...
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... Haynes felt the ground shifting under him. His political affiliations were to the Federalist Party, not the ... argued, without conformance to the Abrahamic covenant. Abraham's rejection of Ishmael, his son with the handmaiden Hagar, was, ...
... Haynes felt the ground shifting under him. His political affiliations were to the Federalist Party, not the ... argued, without conformance to the Abrahamic covenant. Abraham's rejection of Ishmael, his son with the handmaiden Hagar, was, ...
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... Haynes wrote that it would have been as likely that a slave would have passively accepted enslavement “as it would ... argued. Liberty was a divine privilege, Haynes continued, so “he that would infringe upon my Benifit, assumes an ...
... Haynes wrote that it would have been as likely that a slave would have passively accepted enslavement “as it would ... argued. Liberty was a divine privilege, Haynes continued, so “he that would infringe upon my Benifit, assumes an ...
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... Haynes's conclusion about blacks followed easily. An “affrican,” he wrote, “has Equally as good a right to his Liberty in common with Englishmen.” Since both blacks and whites shared one human nature, he argued, “Liberty is Equally as ...
... Haynes's conclusion about blacks followed easily. An “affrican,” he wrote, “has Equally as good a right to his Liberty in common with Englishmen.” Since both blacks and whites shared one human nature, he argued, “Liberty is Equally as ...
Contents
Republicanism Black and White | |
The Divine Providence of Slavery and Freedom | |
Making and Breaking the Revolutionary Covenant | |
American Genesis American Captivity | |
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