Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
On Being Brought from. Africa to America
'Twas mercy brought me from my
Pagan
land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a
Saviour
too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable
I
race with scornful eye,
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"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember,
Christians, Negros,
black as
Cain,
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May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
1773