Phillis Wheatey's 'On Being Brought From Africa To America'

In his poem “ on being brought from Africa to America” Phillis Wheatey told from the point of view of an African. The speaker of the poem talks about god and her converting to Christianity. When she converted, she realized how ignorant she was towards Christianity at first, but now believes in a god, which was shown in the second and third line, “Taught my benighted soul to understand, That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too.” She faces some discrimination because of here skin color, seen in lines “some view our sable race with scornful eye” and “Their colour is a diabolic die.” People do not treat her the same because she does not have the same pigment as them and compare her color to something evil or the devil. Everybody should be