Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Published: June 30, 2020, 9 a.m.

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We consider the year 1758, and we remember the birth of abolitionist James Stephen. The reading is from Jupiter Hammon, the first African slave to have poetry published in America, a selection from his \\u201cAn Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries."

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