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MEMOIR AND POEMS

OF


PHILLIS WHEATLEY,


A NATIVE AMERICAN AND A SLAVE.


also,


POEMS BY A SLAVE.



'Some view the sable race with scornful eye—
Their color is a diabolic dye;
But know, ye Christians, Negroes black as Cain,
May be refined, and join the angelic train.'


THIRD EDITION.



BOSTON,

PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP,

No. 25 Cornhill.


1838.