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On Being Brought from Africa to America

poem by Wheatley

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    “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (written 1768), directly addresses slavery within the framework of Christianity, which the poem describes as the “mercy” that “brought me from my Pagan land” and gave her a “redemption” that she “neither sought nor knew.” The poem concludes…

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