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On being brought from Africa to America

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Source British Library
Relation British Library, Shelfmark: 992.a.34
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Wheatley, Phyllis “On being brought from Africa to America”, RelRace, item créé par Maud Michaud, dernier accès le 21 Nov. 2024.
Contributeur Maud Michaud
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Sujet Caïn et les Africains
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Description Poème qui associe les Africains à une ascendance caïnique.
Auteur Phyllis Wheatley
Date 1773
Éditeur London, A. Bell bookseller
Langue en

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