📜 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 24 September 1786, African American slave and poet #JupiterHammon made his famous "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech, advocating emancipation, at a meeting of the African Society in New York.

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📜 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 24 Sept 1786, African American slave and poet #JupiterHammon made his famous "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech, advocating emancipation, at a meeting of the African Society in New York. It was later published in 1787.

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 25

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December25 #DorothyWordsworth #JupiterHammon #ClydeFitch #WBYeats #LadyGregory #EdwardKnoblock #SamsonRaphaelson #booksky

"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."

✒ #JupiterHammon, African American poet, was #BOTD 17 Oct 1711.

#JupiterHammon #Poetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jupite...