Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley/On being brought from Africa to America

by Phillis Wheatley

ON BRING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO

AMERICA.

'T was 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.