🚨 The special "Voices and Votes" exhibition tour scheduled for this coming Sunday, April 21 has been CANCELLED. Please note that the Exhibition Gallery will remain open to visitors from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Come on by!
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April is National Poetry Month! Jupiter Hammon, who is considered to be the first published African American poet, was born into slavery on Lloyd Neck in 1711. Six of his poems and three of his essays are known to us today. With the power of the pen, Hammon asserted his identity despite living within a system that sought to deny him his humanity. 🖋️
The Revolutionary War was drawing to a close when Hammon authored “A Winter Piece” while still in exile in Hartford, Connecticut in 1782. This particular copy eventually became the possession of Henry Packer Dering, the collector of customs of Sag Harbor, who signed his name on the title page. The evangelical sermon, however, was directed towards a Black audience. Across many of his writings, Hammon promoted a moral uplift philosophy, arguing that by adhering to Christian values, free and enslaved people of African descent could rise up and assert themselves as a people within American society.
This copy of “A Winter Piece,” on loan from @easthamptonlibrary, is now on view as part of the exhibition, “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America!” See it Thursdays through Sundays, 10 AM to 4:30 PM at our Exhibition Gallery in Cold Spring Harbor! 🇺🇸
📝: Jupiter Hammon (1711–ca. 1806). “A Winter Piece,” Hartford, Connecticut, 1782. East Hampton Libray, The Long Island Collection.
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