Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammonwas a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States. Additional poems and sermons were also published. Born into slavery, Hammon was never emancipated. He was living in 1790 at the age of 79, and died by 1806. A devout Christian, he is considered one of the founders of African-American literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
drown greater honours riches
Riches and honours which drown the greater part of mankind, who have the gospel, in perdition, can be little or no temptations to us.
god men mind
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
unfaithful stealing stealing-cars
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
unfaithful excuse masters
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.
forever sin satan
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
sleep mind study
Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
kindness judging despise
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
masters servant
Good servants frequently make good masters.
heaven black slave
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
next you-again forbidden
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
two white heaven
There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
heaven world littles
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
white black rich
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
war white judging
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.