Why did the author write this poem? what message is she trying to communicate to the reader?
"on being brought from africa to america"(1773)
phillis wheatley
‘twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,
taught my benighted soul to understand
that there's a god, that there's a savior too:
once i redemption neither sought nor knew.
some view our sable race with scornful eye.
"their color is a diabolic dye."
remember, christians, negroes, black as cain,
may be refined, and join the angelic train.

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