Little Black boy

• "I am black but oh! My soul is white"


  Radicalised attitudes and purity and race
• "what as an angel the English child but I am black as if bereaved of light"


  Racial comparison and intro of extended sunlight metaphor
• "my mother taught me underneath a tree"

  Imagery of nature and also positive child parent bonding
• "there God does live and give his light and give his heat away"


  Imagery of light as Gods love
• "for when our souls have learned the heat to bear the clouds will vanish and we shall here his voice ",


  Light imagery and ideas of life on earth preparing for heaven
• "I'll stand and stroke his silver hair and he like him and he will then love me"


  Ideas of acceptance only happening if the black boy appears the same as the white boy + acceptance only in the afterlife