# Poor Afric — Poetry character guide

> Poor Afric in Poetry by Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Afric

**First appearance:** 0000-the-grave-of-the-slave

## Who they are

A symbolic figure representing enslaved Africans, lamented in the poem.

## Links

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