The Negro in Sacred History, or, Ham and His Immediate Descendants

"One of the pioneer workers of the African M.E. Church." -Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan. 16, 1911 Dr. Joseph Elias Haynes (1848-1911), was a former slave, colored leader, preacher, physician, author, and close student of ethnology. Born a slave in South Carolina, served in 104th Regiment of Colored Volunteers during Civil War, graduated from Atlanta University and Howard University. Worked in the US Printing Office in Washington DC, and was a county school commissioner in Charleston. He studied medi