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.


America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island (ed. Associated Faculty Pr Inc, 1983)


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...

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...

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...

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...