Lemuel Haynes

Lemuel Haynes was a mixed individual. His mother was white and his father was African American. He never knew his father and his mother rejected him as a child. Lemuel received a common education like the children of the family. He studied and was ordained a congregationalist minster, the first black person to minister to a white congregation. Lemuel wrote that enslaved black people should recieve the same rights as white people. He also wrote a book titled Universal Salvation, A very Ancient Doctrine. Lemuel was the first African-American to recieve an honorary masters' degree, and that was from Middleburg College.