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Jupiter Hammon (1711-ca. 1806) is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American in North America.

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A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
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An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
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An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries
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