Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral/On being brought from Africa

by Phillis Wheatley

 

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 race with scornful eye,5
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.