[Poem] An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

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[Poem] An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

[Poem] An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

Jupiter Hammon was the first published African American poet in the country.

His first published poem, “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,” appeared as a broadside in 1761.

Hammon was never emancipated.

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