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    The poem describes the speaker's journey from their pagan homeland to Christianity. It recounts how mercy brought the speaker to understand that there is God and a Savior. It acknowledges that some view black people with scorn because of their skin color, seeing it as diabolical. However, it reminds Christians that black people, just like Cain, can be refined and join the angels in heaven.

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    The poem describes the speaker's journey from their pagan homeland to Christianity. It recounts how mercy brought the speaker to understand that there is God and a Savior. It acknowledges that some view black people with scorn because of their skin color, seeing it as diabolical. However, it reminds Christians that black people, just like Cain, can be refined and join the angels in heaven.

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    1st Yrs Twas Mercy Poem

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    Japjeet
    The poem describes the speaker's journey from their pagan homeland to Christianity. It recounts how mercy brought the speaker to understand that there is God and a Savior. It acknowledges that some view black people with scorn because of their skin color, seeing it as diabolical. However, it reminds Christians that black people, just like Cain, can be refined and join the angels in heaven.

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    'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,


    2 Taught my benighted soul to understand
    3 That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
    4 Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    5 Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    6 "Their colour is a diabolic die."
    7 Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
    8 May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

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    Glossary:

    Pagan: heathen, non-Christian


    benighted: without knowledge or morals
    redemption: (especially in Christianity) an occasion when someone is
    saved from sin, evil, or suffering
    sable: a very dark or black colour
    Cain: A son of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother Abel in the Biblical
    story of Genesis 4:1–16. A mark was put on him by God as a sign of God’s
    protection so that no one would take revenge on him.

    MZ

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