Question

6. Read the poem by Phyllis Wheatley, and try to pick out a derogatory term or phrase that was used for black people in her time.

'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.

Answer 1

Negroes is a derogatory term that was used for black people in her time.