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Hartford, August 4, 1778. An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ
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Hartford, August 4, 1778. An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 sheet)
Local Notes
LLMC Digital Library Collection
Notes
Verse of twenty-one numbered stanzas; first line: O come you pious youth! adore.
At foot: "Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro man belonging to Mr. Joseph Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long-Island, now in Hartford. The above lines are published by the author, and a number of his friends, who desire to join with him in their best regards to Miss Wheatly."
The firm of Watson and Goodwin printed other poems by Hammon while the Lloyd family was at Hartford.
Text in two columns.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed June 21, 2018).
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Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly ...
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Print version: Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-approximately 1800. Hartford, August 4, 1778. An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ. [Hartford : Printed by Watson and Goodwin?, 1778]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2019
References
Bristol B4698.
Shipton & Mooney 43470.
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 192.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Poetry.
Broadsides.
Poems - 1778.
Electronic books.
Poetry.
Broadsides.
Poems - 1778.
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