The Legacies of Black Pioneers: Lemuel Haynes

The Dissidents

Welcome to our the first episode of our monthly series of the Dissidents Podcast on the legacies of black pioneers, brought to you by the Black Institute of Liberal Values (a joint project of Free Black Thought and the Institute for Liberal Values). In this inaugural episode, Winkfield Twyman, Jr & Jennifer Richmond, speak with Bill Paine and Tom Miller, two descendants of the first ordained black minister, Lemuel Haynes. Jen & Wink talk about what it means for people to come together across the color line in celebration of pioneering ancestors and in community as “Old Americans”.

Lemuel Haynes Resources:

Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, and Late in Granville, New York. Timothy Mather Cooley. Publisher: John S. Taylor, NY. 1839

Black Puritan, Black Republican The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833. John Saillant. Oxford University Press, 2003

Lemuel Haynes, a bio-bibliography. Richard Newman. Lambeth, Press, NY. 1984

Black preacher to white America : the collected writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833 / edited by Richard Newman; introduction by Helen MacLam ; preface by Mechal Sobel.

Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833.

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1989

Liberty Further Extended-https://www.jstor.org/stable/1919529

John Saillant SEA Scholar of the Month June, 2023 https://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/whats-new-announcements/sea-scholar-of-the-month-june-2023-john-saillant

https://www.jstor.org/stable/365942 "Not Only Extreme Poverty, but the Worst Kind of Orphanage": Lemuel Haynes and the Boundaries of Racial Tolerance on the Yankee Frontier, 1770-1820 Author(s): Richard D. Brown Source: The New England Quarterly , Dec., 1988, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 502-518 Published by: The New England Quarterly, Inc.

https://we-ha.com/memorial-to-lemuel-haynes-dedicated-in-west-hartford/

https://granbydrummer.com/2020/08/lemuel-haynes-an-eloquent-man-of-god/

https://granbydrummer.com/2020/09/lemuel-haynes-an-eloquent-man-of-god-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AaYsRYojDc *The Lemuel Haynes part starts at 32:28

And another small segment from West Rutland a couple years ago

https://vermonthistory.org/lemuel-haynes

https://jwhamil.com/Hamil/Family.htm (Family website)

Other related resources:

Discovering Black Vermont, African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 1790-1890. Elise A. Guyette. Vermont Historical Society. 2020

The Little Professor of Piney Woods, The Story of Professor Laurence Jones. Beth Day. Julian Messner, Inc. NY. 1956

Benjamin Banneker and Us, Eleven Generations of an American Family. Rachel Jamison Webster. Henry Holt and Company. NY. 2023

Vermont African American Heritage Trail: https://www.vermontvacation.com/~/media/files/pdfs/itineraries/vermont-african-american-heritage-trail-2015.ashx?la=en