# Poetry — Character guide

> Key figures in Poetry by Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis.

- [Poor Afric](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_20_se/characters/poor_afric.md): A symbolic figure representing enslaved Africans, lamented in the poem.
- [Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_20_se/characters/sarah_louisa_forten_purvis.md): She moves through her poems as both private elegist and public conscience: mourning a mother's lost son, bidding farewell to a friend who will forget her, and urging a ship to carry the 'Champion of the slave' across the
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_20_se/characters/mother.md): A grieving mother addressed by her enslaved daughter in a poem.
- [Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_20_se/characters/christ.md): Invoked as a divine figure in prayers for deliverance.

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