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Biography

Leumuel Haynes was born on July 18, 1774 in Hartford, Connecticut
Lemuel Haynes was a patriot during the American Revolutionary War, he to be free. Lemuel was abandoned as child by his white mother and African father, Lemuel was raised on a farm in Massachusetts. He worked on the farm in the day and spent time learning and studying in front of the fireplace at night. For a number of years.
When Lemuel became a free man in 1774 at age of 21 in one of his first choices was to join freedom's cause and serve in a military unit from Connecticut.
More than 5,000 African soldiers both slave and free fought in the American Revolutionary War. Lemuel not only fought on the battlefield, but he also wrote about freedom in poems and essays. Lemuel was inspired by the Declaration of Independence, and in 1776 he wrote an essay about the need to extend freedom to Africans. His essay was called, "Liberty Further Extended."
After the American Revolutionary War, Lemuel returned to Massachusetts, where he studied Latin and Greek and taught school. He became a preacher and spent the next 50 years pastoring churches. Five of the churches he served included Anglo members. Many of Lemuel’s sermons were published during his lifetime, and the presidents of Yale University and Amherst College often sought his advice. He also received an honorary degree from Middlebury
College. Leumuel experienced life both as a slave and as a free man. He not only fought on the battlefield, but also wrote about the need to extend freedom to slaves
Lemuel Haynes died on September 28, 1833 in Granville, New York

(A short biography on African American revolutionary war patriot Lemuel Hayes)