Jupiter Hammon Project: Mapping People & Places

The  Jupiter Hammon Project  is a major initiative and multi-year effort of  Preservation Long Island . The goal of the project is to develop a more equitable interpretation for  Joseph Lloyd Manor , an 18th-century historic house museum and a site of Black enslavement on Long Island. This expanded interpretation will include telling the story of  Jupiter Hammon (1711– ca. 1806) , one of the earliest published African American writers, who composed his most well-known works while enslaved at the house.