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Phillis Wheatley

      '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.

Phillis Wheatley, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a

Native African and a Slave (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838) 48.