Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon

Cedrick May is professor of English and digital arts at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835. His articles have appeared in African American Review and EAL: Early American Literature.

“This text will become the definitive collection of Hammon’s work—not only because of the archival finds that Cedrick May features but also because of his careful and attentive reconstruction of Hammon’s historical, political, social, and religious contexts.”—Katy L. Chiles, author of Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America"This volume, which reflects those discoveries about Hammon's life and work that have taken place since Ransom's earlier collection, will enable scholars, instructors, students, and other interested readers ready access to the most up-to-date assessment and presentation of this pioneering African American author's body of work."—Ajuan Maria Mance, editor of Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century