Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 17, 1711 - 1806
Birthday: October 17
Death: 1806
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
source: Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
topic: Heaven, Black, Slave, Reproach