Wheatley’s poem attacked the segregationist curse theory of Blackness.

Evidence

Some view our sable race with scornful eye, … Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, … May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 237

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘black as Cain’ curse theory is segregationist framing; useful as a concrete textual instance of the segregationist position the reader must be able to identify.