{"product_id":"1805-lemuel-haynes-rare-imprint-of-lemuel-haynes-sermon-at-death-of-mentor-job-swift","title":"1805 LEMUEL HAYNES. Rare Imprint of Lemuel Haynes Sermon at Death of Mentor, Job Swift.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA very scarce and important imprint related to Rev. Lemuel Haynes [1753-1833], the first ordained African American minister in the United States. Having served a predominantly white congregation in West Rutland, Vermont for over thirty years, Haynes was selected to preach the funeral sermon and author the biographical sketch honoring his close friend and mentor, Job Swift [1743-1804]. Swift was something of a Patriarch in Congregational Vermont. The choice of Vermont’s only ordained African American clergyman to deliver the official memorial and chronicle the legacy of the state’s leading white clergyman reflects the extraordinary respect and authority Haynes commanded across racial lines in early New England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe subject of the collection, Rev. Job Swift, D.D., was himself a significant figure in early Vermont ecclesiastical history. A influential Congregationalist minister, proponent of Hopkinsian theology, and early trustee of Middlebury College, Swift was a pioneer of religious institution-building whose sudden death during a missionary tour in 1804 deeply impacted the region, making this subscriber-funded volume a key historical record of Vermont’s early religious landscape and the profound bond between the two ministers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLemuel Haynes also present on the Subscriber's list in the rear, purchasing 12 copies of the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Lemuel Haynes] Swift, Job, Lemuel Haynes. Discourses on Religious Subjects. By the Late Rev. Job Swift, D. D. To which are Prefixed, Sketches of His Life and Character, and a Sermon, Preached at West Rutland, on the Occasion of His Death, by Rev. Lemuel Haynes. Middlebury, Vermont. Printed by Huntington and Fitch. 1805. First Edition. 300pp. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood + in original leather with some epidermal losses to spine as shown, boards a bit splayed. Textually very good with some light scattered foxing as shown. Very solid. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51207465500708,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/08-06-2026SpecsFineBooks-4.jpg?v=1786067682","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1805-lemuel-haynes-rare-imprint-of-lemuel-haynes-sermon-at-death-of-mentor-job-swift","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}