Scholarly Publications

Preservation Long Island Blog Posts

• The Life and Works of Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806)
• Jupiter Hammon and New York’s Long Struggle for Freedom
• Writing Revolution: Jupiter Hammon’s Address to Phillis Wheatley

Articles and Dissertations

• Charla Bolton & Rex Metcalf, “The Migration of Jupiter Hammon and His Family: From Slavery to Freedom and its Consequences“
• Cedrick May, “An Enslaved Poet on Slavery” 
• Cedrick May & Julie McCown, “An Essay on Slavery: An Unpublished Poem by Jupiter Hammon”
• Lauren Brincat, “Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Joseph Lloyd Manor”
• Phillip M. Richards, “Nationalist Themes in the Preaching of Jupiter Hammon”
• Jenna Coplin & Chris Matthews, “The Archaeology of Captivity & Freedom at Joseph Lloyd Manor”
• Allison McGovern, “Digging the Roots of Inequality on Long Island”
• Jenna Coplin, ed., “Mapping African American History Across Long Island”
• Nicole Maskiell, “Slavery Among Elites in Colonial Massachusetts and New York”
• H. Arthur Bankoff, Christopher Ricciardi, & Alyssa Loorya, “Remembering Africa Under the Eaves: A Forgotten Room in a Brooklyn Farmhouse Bears Witness to the Spiritual Lives of Slaves” 

Other Publications  

• Stanley Ransom, ed. America’s First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
• Anna Gedal, “Unpublished Jupiter Hammon Poem Discovered at N-YHS”
• African Americans in the Town of Huntington: The Early Years
• Hofstra University Library – Slavery on Long Island
• Huntington African American Historic Designation Council, Volume IV, “A Tribute to Jupiter Hammon” 

Jupiter Hammon Project Bibliography