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    "text": "’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,",
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   {
    "text": "Taught my benighted soul to understand",
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    "text": "That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:",
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   {
    "text": "Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.",
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   {
    "text": "Some view our sable race with scornful eye,",
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    "text": "“Their colour is a diabolic die.”",
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    "text": "Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,",
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    "text": "May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.",
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