Person Detail: Jupiter Hammon

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Full Name: Jupiter Hammon | ||
Biography: (1711-c.1806) Writer. Jupiter Hammon was the first black writer to be published in America. He was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay, New York. His work was loaded with Biblical allusions to slavery, and is considered some of the first anti-slavery poetry written by an American slave. Jupiter Hammon's residence, Lloyd Manor, is currently a historic house museum, which gives tours from June until September. |
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1711 |
Nassau County Jupiter Hammon was born in Oyster Bay, New York, in 1711. |
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1806 |
(Unknown) County Hammon died around 1806. |
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1760 |
(Unknown) County An Evening of Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries Poem. |
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1779 |
(Unknown) County An Essay on the Ten Virgins Poem. |
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1787 |
(Unknown) County An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York Poem. |
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1760 |
(Unknown) County Salvation Comes by Christ Alone Poem. |
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Nassau County Hammon was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay, New York, and of Suffolk County, New York. |
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Suffolk County Hammon was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay, New York and of Suffolk County, New York. |
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(Unknown) County An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic], Ethiopian Poetess Poem. |
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(Unknown) County A Poem for Children with Thoughts of Death Poem. |
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(Unknown) County A Dialogue Entitled the Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant Poem. |
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(Unknown) County A Winter Piece: Being a Serious Exhortation, with a Call to the Unconverted Sermon essay. |
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(Unknown) County A Short Contemplation on the Death of Jesus Sermon essay. |
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(Unknown) County An Evening's Improvement, Showing, the Necessity of Beholding the Lamb of God Sermon essay. |
