Lemuel Haynes was an American clergyman. A veteran of the American Revolution, and most likely the first black man in the United States to be ordained as a minister by a mainstream Protestant Church. Haynes was born on July 18, 1753, in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of an African American man and […]
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