Comparing Wheatley's On Being Brought From Africa To America

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Wheatley’s writing, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (Wheatley, 420), shows how much she grew to love G-d and be knowledgeable about there being a Saviour. Yet, she talks about how those she met scorned her for the color of her skin and did not believe those of “color” had a place in heaven. Even though she was black, a slave, and looked at as less than those whose skin was fair, she had enough self-confidence to stand up for herself and those of her race to state, “Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refined, and join the angelic train”(Wheatley,
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