Wheatley discusses the outcome of her enslavement and describes Africans in Cain-like terms.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Phyllis Wheatley Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Phillis Wheatley, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: George W. Light, 1834), 42
- Scribe/Publisher
- George W. Light
- People
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
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 race with scornful eye-- 'Their color is a diabolic dye.' Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain May be refined, and join the angelic train
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