Before the overwhelming fact that they could no longer be bought and sold--that they could no longer be separated from their loved ones, these simple black folk fell in transports of gratitude before God, their mighty deliverer, their everlasting Father.
Grimké describes the deep gratitude of freedmen towards God for their liberation from slavery.
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