National Poetry Month Daily Poem-On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
'Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,
Taught my beknighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Savior 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 refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
--Boston, circa 1770-80