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Jupiter Hammon has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct…
• Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves,…
• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you…
• All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
• As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this…
• I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe…
• If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few…
• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
• If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you…
• Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
• He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse…

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