Jupiter Hammon
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| Gender | Male |
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| Date of birth | October 17,1711 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Long Island |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Job | Poet |
| Books | An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York |
| America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island | |
| The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon: Poems and Essays | |
| Eighteenth Century Afro-American Texts | |
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| ID | 544988 |
Jupiter Hammon Life story
Jupiter Hammon was a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States. Additional poems and sermons were also published. Born into slavery, Hammon was never emancipated. He was living in 1790 at the age of 79, and died by 1806.
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