“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

— William Blake , The Little Black Boy

The Little Black Boy, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black as if bereaved of light.”