Phillis Wheatley

“In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression, and pants for deliverance.”

“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.”

“Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.”