An evening thought. : Salvation by Christ, with penetential cries: / composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr Lloyd, of Queen’s-Village, on Long-Island, the 25th of December, 1760

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Creator / Contributor: Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-approximately 1800
Title: An evening thought. : Salvation by Christ, with penetential cries: / composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr Lloyd, of Queen’s-Village, on Long-Island, the 25th of December, 1760
Collection Title: Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library
Place: [New York?]
Publisher: [Hugh Gaine?]
Date: 1760
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 27 x 20 cm
Description: The first poem published by an African American in North America. Verse of eighty-eight lines; first line: Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone.
Identifier: Broadsides -- SY1760 no.2
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Subject: African American poets
Christian poetry
Poetry--Black authors
Salvation--Poetry
Slaves--New York (State)--Long Island
Slaves’ writings, American
Material type or medium of original: broadsides (notices)
poems
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