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Phillis Wheatley was a poet and the author of the first book published by an African-American woman. She was born in West Africa and lived most of her life as a slave in Boston.
"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 dye." Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.