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 Drawing on both published and rare unpublished sources, John Saillant here offers the first comprehensive study of Haynes and his thought.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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... black Calvinism scorned Islam, which eighteenth-century abolitionists, black and white, believed was the religion of West African slave-traders. This study argues that, notwithstanding the inevitable differences between eighteenth-century.
... black Calvinism scorned Islam, which eighteenth-century abolitionists, black and white, believed was the religion of West African slave-traders. This study argues that, notwithstanding the inevitable differences between eighteenth-century.
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... covenant was broken and the type of white Americans' hostility to the blacks among them. The restoration of the covenant was, he believed, possible in post-Revolutionary America. Haynes promoted unity—in politics, in society, and.
... covenant was broken and the type of white Americans' hostility to the blacks among them. The restoration of the covenant was, he believed, possible in post-Revolutionary America. Haynes promoted unity—in politics, in society, and.
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... believed prevailed in a society that tolerated slave-trading and slaveholding. What was illicit under Christian rule should have been renounced by Christians and forbidden by a republican state. “There is Not the Least precept, or ...
... believed prevailed in a society that tolerated slave-trading and slaveholding. What was illicit under Christian rule should have been renounced by Christians and forbidden by a republican state. “There is Not the Least precept, or ...
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... believed, Islam encouraged the traffic in human beings.48 The history of enslavement that Benezet offered, corroborated by the first-hand experiences of men like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and James Albert Ukawsaw ...
... believed, Islam encouraged the traffic in human beings.48 The history of enslavement that Benezet offered, corroborated by the first-hand experiences of men like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and James Albert Ukawsaw ...
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... believed, in Old Testament Israelite and some West African Muslim societies, was twisted in the centuries of European expansion into the Americas into the carnage and misery of the slave trade and New World slavery. This ability to ...
... believed, in Old Testament Israelite and some West African Muslim societies, was twisted in the centuries of European expansion into the Americas into the carnage and misery of the slave trade and New World slavery. This ability to ...
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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