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Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. True first edition. 319 pp. plus a 20-page appendix of Rev. Haynes' writings and 14 pages of "interesting works" published by Harper & Brothers. Hardcover bound in the publisher's brown embossed cloth. In complete but fragile condition with partial internal splitting of the text block and light foxing. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving and intact tissue guard. No internal markings. Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) was a Revolutionary War veteran of mixed-race parentage. He was the first Black man in the US to be ordained as a credentialed minister in a Protestant church. He was born in West Hartford CT and led a Congregational congregation in Rutland VT for three decades. Haynes was active in the anti-colonization movement, arguing that Black Americans were due the same rights under the Constitution as other Americans. He was a leading figure in the early Abolitionist movement, which caught fire nationally around the time of his death at age 80. SCARCE.