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Jupiter Hammon: Hammon's Address to the Negroes of New York State, 1806 |
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Jupiter Hammon | | Birth Date: |
October 17, 1711 | | Death Date: |
17901806 | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Jupiter Hammon
3,779 words, approx. 13 pages
 Jupiter Hammon, the first black writer to publish in America, has been one of the least understood and most undervalued writers among those in the tradition that he engendered. Facts about his life are hidden in the lost records of slavery; and his... summary from source:
Biography of Jupiter Hammon
1,998 words, approx. 7 pages
Jupiter Hammon, the first American of African descent to publish poetry and prose in the Western world, was born a slave at the aristocratic Lloyd Manor in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, on 17 October 1711. His life spanned the eighteenth century,... 
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 Jupiter Hammon Information
288 words, approx. 1 pages
 Jupiter Hammon (born October 17 1711 – died 1806?) was a Black poet and the first published Black writer in America, a poem appearing in print in 1760. He is considered one of the founders of African American literature. Hammon was a slave his...
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 Highlights for Children Jupiter Hammon.(African American poet)
08/01/2000: 235 words, approx. 1 pages In our August 1999 issue, we published an article about poet Phillis Wheatley. The article said that Ms. Wheatley had been the first published black poet in America. But now we have learned that Jupiter Hammon, a slave born in Loyds Neck, New York,... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jupiter
12/31/2001: 392 words, approx. 1 pages Jupiter, Earth get cozy at stroke of midnight New Year's Eve Knight Ridder News Service Monday, December 31, 2001 Washington -- Jupiter will ring in the new year by looming directly overhead at midnight today, as close to Earth as it...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sondra A. O'Neale
7,371 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt O'Neale argues that Hammon was actually one of this country's first African American protest writers. And given the context of eighteenth century society, and especially the fact that he was a slave, Hammon had to couch his criticism of slavery in religious terminology. O'Neale insists that critics who fault Hammon's poetry for its apparent focus on religious salvation rather that physical emancipation are missing the subtle message of protest in Hammon&... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Lonnell E. Johnson
2,700 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following excerpt, Johnson discusses factors that might have influenced Hammon's writings. These factors include Hammon's religion, his life as a slave, eighteenth-century politics and society, and the works of other writers.
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Critical Essay by Kenny J. Williams
1,614 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following excerpt, Williams compares Hammon's poetry to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American religious verse.
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