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(BLACK HISTORY.). COOLEY, TIMOTHY MATHER. Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., and Late in Granville, New-York. With Some Introductory Remarks by William B. Sprague. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. 2nd ed. 12mo. 348 pp. Frontispiece port. of Haynes. Orig. cloth, spine chipped. $150.00

 

Rinderknecht 49895. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 2694, for the 1837 Harpers edition, but not this. Haynes, probably the first black minister in Vermont, is perhaps best known for a many times reprinted sermon considered a masterpiece of religious satire. Later he wrote several pamphlets on the Colvin-Boorn murder case, one of the strangest in Vermont history.