TO THE MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN SOCIETY, IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.
Gentlemen,
I TAKE the liberty to dedicate an Address to my poor brethren to you. If you think it is likely to do good among them, I do not doubt but you will take it under your care. You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. I have nothing to add, but only to wish that “the blessing of many ready to perish, may come upon you."
I am Gentlemen,
Your Servant,
JUPITER HAMMON.Queen's Village, 24th Sept. 1786.
