Analyze this poems below's seeming meanings and hidden, ironic meanings in an additional paragraph

Question

Analyze this poems below's seeming meanings and hidden, ironic meanings in an additional paragraph

On Being Brought from Africa to America

'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.

Answer 1

The poem addresses the forcible importation of slaves to the United States, and the quest to make them recant any belief in the gods of their homeland and, in many cases, forcibly converting black and indigenous peoples to Christianity. It also reminds the reader that people of color are as able and capable of entering a Christian "heaven" as any white person and that racial prejudice cannot, and would not, deny them "salvation". The writer is citing his experience with evangelism as a forcible change from being a "pagan heathen" to someone acceptable as a Christian, but not as a social equal to white people in the larger society.