Hammon Jupiter
Title
Hammon Jupiter
Relation
PAL (http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/hammon.html)
Coverage
America
Birth Date
1711
First Name
Jupiter
Last Name
Hammon
Bibliography
Wikipedia and misc. online sources; Basker, 137-45
Biographical Text
First African-American to be published
Occupation
Slave
Death Date
1806?
Publications
An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries: Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr. Lloyd of Queen's Village, on Long Island, the 25th of December, 1760 (broadside, 1761); An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley (broadside, 1778); A Winter Piece [prose] (1782); An Evening’s Improvement [prose and poetry] (1783); An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York [important prose work] (1787)
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Male
- Citation
- “Hammon Jupiter,” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed May 16, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/247.