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Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first black poet in America to publish a book. She was born around 1753 in West Africa and brought to New England in 1761, where John...
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FURTHER READING
Politics and Patriotism
Howl, Parts I & II
by Allen Ginsberg
A Farewell to America
by Phillis Wheatley
America
by Robert Creeley
America
by Walt Whitman
American History
by Michael S. Harper
Bomb Crater Sky
by Lam Thi My Da
Dear George Bush
by Kristin Prevallet
Exquisite Candidate
by Denise Duhamel
Exquisite Politics
by Denise Duhamel
I Hear America Singing
by Walt Whitman
I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
Identity Crisis
by F. D. Reeve
In a Country
by Larry Levis
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds
by Eleanor Lerman
Patriotics
by David Baker
Patriotism
by Sir Walter Scott
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry
by Carl Dennis
The Star-Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key
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On Being Brought from Africa to America  
by 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 Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
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