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RARE BOOK FROM THE HAYNES LIBRARY
452
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(RELIGION.)
The Rev. Lemuel Haynes’ signed copy of “A Common
Place Book to the Bible or The Scriptures Sufficiency.”
(xiv), [1]-309, (viii) pages.
4to, original full calf, worn, rear cover detached; lacks front free end-papers. * [together
with] Reverend Ashbel Parmelee’s copy of “A Complete Concordance to the Holy
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, in Two Parts.” The latter with the simple
printed bookplate of Reverend S. Parmelee. 4to, contemporary full pigskin, quite worn;
text clean; paper evenly toned [together two volumes.]
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
London: Bettesworth and Hitch, 1738; London: Midwinter, 1738
[2,000/3,000]
A BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY THE NOTED AFRICAN AMERICAN
V
ERMONT MINISTER LEMUEL
HAYNES
.
BOLDLY SIGNED BY HAYNES ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN
.
As an infant, Haynes
(1753-1833) was abandoned by his black father and white mother. At five months, the court ordered
him bound till the age of twenty-one to Deacon David Rose, a Middle Granville Massachusetts man
and his wife. Haynes learned to read at an early age and developed a voracious appetite for books. He
was treated as well as any of the Rose’s other children, and lived with them until the age of 32. The
Rev. S. Parmalee lived with Haynes for a time, and no doubt gave him this volume.
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(RELIGION.)
An unidentified, seated portrait of what is almost certainly
the noted minister, author, and editor Benjamin T. Tanner.
Quarter plate, large
cased tintype, showing the subject reading a newspaper, his Dalmatian dog at his side; some
slight rippling to the surface apparent when viewed at an angle.
Np, circa 1870’s
[800/1,200]
Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835-1923) was one of twelve children born to free black parents from
Pittsburgh. He attended Avery College, Western Theological Seminary, and Wilberforce where he was
made a Doctor of Divinity. In 1862 he took over the 15th Street AME Church in Washington,
D.C. and following the war, established the nation’s first school for freedmen located in the U. S.
Navy Yard in Washington. In 1868 Tanner was elected Secretary of the AME General Conference
and named editor of its publication, The Christian Recorder, which soon became the largest black-
owned periodical in the nation. In 1884 Turner became the editor of a new AME newspaper, AME
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( RAD I CA L I SM—PAN -
AFRICANISM.) TOMAZ, DR. JAMAL
BEN.
The Revolution at Home, five
issues.
Folio sheets, 8
1
/
2
x 14 inches;
folded to form four pages each printed on
all sides.
New Rochelle, NY, circa 1978-1979
[600/900]
Doctor Jamal ben Tomaz was a former high
ranking member of the New York Black Panther
Party. In the late 1970’s he dropped out and
formed The Universal Temple of Mind and
Associates, and began printing up this rather
unusual newsletter. Tomaz’s message is a peaceful
one of revolution through the consciousness of
one’s “blackness” and African roots. “Think
African,” says one of the front pages of this rare
paper. “Revolution” carries articles on the plight
of Africans in South Africa along with the prob-
lems in the emerging African nations. Not
observed by Danky; no copies located in OCLC.