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MEMOIR AND POEMS
OF
PHILLIS WHEATLEY,
A NATIVE AMERICAN AND A SLAVE.
also,
POEMS BY A SLAVE.
'Some view the sable race with scornful eye—
Their color is a diabolic dye;
But know, ye Christians, Negroes black as Cain,
May be refined, and join the angelic train.'
THIRD EDITION.
BOSTON,
PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP,
No. 25 Cornhill.
1838.