 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...to be heeded. There are exceptions, but the general preference remains intact. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY 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 bereav'd of light.... | |
 | Adam Lively - 2000 - 306 pages
...white. Blake expresses the same idea in 'The Little Black Boy', one of his Songs of Innocence (1789): My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. Blake has his little black boy imagine meeting a 'little English boy' in heaven.... | |
 | Mary Prince - 2001 - 162 pages
...in Abolitionist literature of this period. See, for example: William Blake, The Little Black Boy': '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 bereav'd of light'... | |
 | Earl Shorris - 2000 - 292 pages
...easily to them; more than anything they responded to this poem by William Blake. The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but 0! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child; But I am black as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Roger Little - 2001 - 312 pages
...colonialism later in the century, will not find a response until the 1920s. CHAPTER 2 FROM TABOO TO TOTEM 'My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black but O! my soul is white.' William Blake82 ALTHOUGH the Convention formally abolished slavery and the slave-trade... | |
 | David M. Friedman - 2008 - 376 pages
...immune to such stereotyping. This is from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, published in 1789: 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 bereav'd of light.... | |
 | Roxy Harris, Ben Rampton - 2003 - 376 pages
...These terms re-emerged ambivalently in abolitionist literature such as Blake's 'Little Black Boy": 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.... | |
 | Marguerite Shuster - 2004 - 296 pages
...of black and white, with darkness always as the negative pole. Thus we find William Blake's lines, 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.37... | |
 | William Blake - 2003 - 262 pages
...are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee, Little Lamb God bless thee The Little Black Boy 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 bereav'd of light.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...spiritual, as is illustrated by the moral of his poem on the little black boy, quoted in Chapter 14: My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. And this was for the familiar antinomian reason: God was within: 'All deities... | |
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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 bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me... 
