63869. Wheatley, Phillis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	63869
QUOTATION:	‘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 color is a diabolic die.” Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
ATTRIBUTION:	Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), U.S. poet. On Being Brought from Africa to America (l. 1–8). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.