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Anonymous

Jan 12, 2025

Read the excerpt and answer the question. remember, christians, negroes, black as cain, may be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

The answer is letter D – that Africans can become refined Christians. Wheatley seeks to remind Christians by stating, “Remember, Christians…” She also employs a simile by comparing Negroes to Cain, who was marked by God. Additionally, there is a metaphor in this excerpt where the "angelic train" refers to a heavenly procession that leads a person to everlasting bliss.

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The answer would be letter D – that Africans can become refined Christians. Wheatley seeks to remind Christians by saying “Remember, Christians…” Wheatley also uses simile to refer the Negros being black like Cain who was marked by God. There’s also a metaphor in this excerpt where the angelic train means a heavenly train that brings a person to everlasting bliss.
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Anonymous

Jan 17, 2025

D) that Africans can become refined ChristiansExplanation:This excerpt shows that anyone can become a refined Christian, including the Africans, who according to the text, are black like Cain. In the past, many believed that the sign in Cain was a dark skin – that God changed the color of Cain’s skin to black in order to identify him. Since Cain also received a curse, the belief that the mark was black skin led many to believe that dark-skinned people were cursed. And because of this “curse” is that the excerpt speaker says that even blacks (the cursed ones) can become refined Christians

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