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“Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone, / The only Son of God, / Redemption now to every one, / That love his holy Word.” With these words of praise, Jupiter Hammon, a fifty-year-old slave from Long Island, New York, changed American literature forever. The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the work of America’s first published black writer.

“Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone, / The only Son of God, / Redemption now to every one, / That love his holy Word.” With these words of praise, Jupiter Hammon, a fifty-year-old slave from Long Island, New York, changed American literature forever. The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the work of America’s first published black writer.

Title: An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York.Author: Jupiter HammonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering ...