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
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43470
Publisher: Printed by Watson and Goodwin?
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Subjects: Christian life; African Americans; Poetry; Religion; Christian poetry
Other titles: Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly ...; O come you pious youth! adore.
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.

Bristol B4698

Shipton & Mooney 43470

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 192