March Haynes

Biography

March Haynes (March 4, 1825 Pocotaligo, Jasper, South Carolina – July 16, 1899 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia) was an African American abolitionist. He freed over three hundred enslaved people using his knowledge of the waterways of Savannah, Georgia, after his enslaver, John C. Rowland became a prisoner during the American Civil War. Though little is known of Haynes's early life, he became a member of Wilmington Baptist Church in 1838.

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