Jupiter Hammon Quotes

• Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

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• There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

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• The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

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• The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

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• That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

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• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

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• Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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• It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

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• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

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• If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

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• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

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• If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

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• I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

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• He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

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• Good servants frequently make good masters.

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• But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

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• Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

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• As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

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• All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

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• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

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Jupiter Hammon (24)

Birth:	17th October, 1711
Death:	1806
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet, Preacher, Writer

About

Jupiter Hammon was a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States. Additional poems and sermons were also published. Born into slavery, Hammon was never emancipated. He was living in 1790 at the age of 79, and died by 1806. A devout Christian, he is considered one of the founders of African-American literature.

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