An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York
(1787),
in which he advocated freeing children of slaves instead of
condemning them to hereditary slavery. His poem "An Evening
Thought" was the first poem published by a black male in America.
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The black American poet Jupiter Hammon, a slave on Long
Island, New York, is remembered for his religious poems as well
as for An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York
(1787),
in which he advocated freeing children of slaves instead of
condemning them to hereditary slavery. His poem "An Evening
Thought" was the first poem published by a black male in America.
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