A winter piece, being a serious exhortation, with a call to the unconverted: and a short contemplation on the death of Jesus Christ,, written by Jupiter Hammon, a negro man belonging to Mr. John Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long Island, now in Hartford, published by the author with the assistance of his friends, 1782
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A winter piece, being a serious exhortation, with a call to the unconverted: and a short contemplation on the death of Jesus Christ,, written by Jupiter Hammon, a negro man belonging to Mr. John Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long Island, now in Hartford, published by the author with the assistance of his friends, 1782
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A winter piece
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written by Jupiter Hammon, a negro man belonging to Mr. John Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long Island, now in Hartford, published by the author with the assistance of his friends, 1782
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being a serious exhortation, with a call to the unconverted: and a short contemplation on the death of Jesus Christ,
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Inscribed by Henry Packer DeringInserted typewritten note by Morton Pennypacker: "first negro poet in America, Jupiter Hammon, born about 1720, servant of John Lloyd of Queen's Village, Long Island [Lloyd Neck, Huntington Township, N.Y.]; published poems nine years before Phillis Wheatley."
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