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RE: Subverting the Scriptural Tradition:
I love you've made such a well written post on the "black muse," @hlezama. You've made a great work on its translation, too.
No need to be a believer to love this piece:
'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, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
She's terrific.
Thanks for your encomium :)
It is an honor to have you, now a consummate poetess, as a reader.
It is great that you bring that poem to the comment, her famous "On being brought to America". It is a good example of her cleverness in the use of language and religious references. It clearly questions white moral and religious supremacy and even Christianity itself, and she got away with it!
She did ♥
Thank YOU!