Oliver Baptiste

An analog digital audio visual individual.

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’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, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

—Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America.

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  1. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!
  2. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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It also requires the Shift key to make the first letter of the sentence uppercase.

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Although the exact date and place of her birth are not documented, scholars believe Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753 in West Africa, likely in present-day Gambia or Senegal.

She was “sold” by a local chief to a visiting trader, who transported her to Boston in the British Colony of Massachusetts on

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Upon her arrival in Boston, Wheatley was “purchased” by John Wheatley, who enslaved her for his wife, Susanna.

The Wheatleys named her Phillis, after the ship that trafficked her from her homeland in West Africa.